LOT DETAILS

Materials:

gold ground, tempera on panel

Measurements:

21.26 in. (54.00 cm.) (height) by 14.76 in. (37.50 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

London, Royal Academy of Arts, Exhibition of Italian Art, 1930, p. 416, no. 944-a; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art/ The Cloisters, on loan, 1982-2009.

Literature:

F. Harck, in Archivio Storico dell'Arte, 1889, vol. II, p. 206; Crowe and Calvacaselle, History of Painting in Italy, 1908, vol. III, p. 90, note 8; B. Berenson, Catalogue of the Johnson Collection, 1913, p. 54, under cat. no. 94; A Commemorative Catalogue of the Exhibition of Italian Art, Royal Academy, 1930, Lord Balmiel, K. Clark and E. Modigliani, eds., 1931, vol. I, p. 16, cat no. 41; C. Brandi, "An Unpublished Reliquary of Francesco di Vannuccio", in Art in America, December 1931, XX, pp. 41-42, 47, reproduced figs. 3-4; R. Offner, "The Works and Style of Francesco di Vannuccio", in Art in America, April 1932, XX, p. 89 and note 1, pp. 109-112; C. Brandi, "Francesco di Vannuccio e Paolo Giovanni Fei", in Bullettino Senese di Storia Patria", n.s., IV, 1933, p. 31; B. Berenson, Central and Northern Italian Schools, 1968, p. 145, reproduced plate 382; J. Richards, "Francesco di Vannuccio," in Grove Dictionary of Art, vol. 11, 1996, p. 697.

Provenance:

Richard von Kaufmann, Berlin and Charlottenberg, before 1889; His sale, Berlin, December 4-5, 1917, lot 12, for 23,500 marks, to Drey; With A.S. Drey, Munich; Camillo Castiglioni (1879-1957), Vienna; His sale, Amsterdam, F. Muller, November 17-20, 1925, lot 5, for 5,600 florins; With A.S. Drey, Munich; His (forced) sale, Berlin, P. Graupe, June 17-18, 1936, lot 61, for 4,000 marks; Emma Reifenberg, Köln and Scarsdale; Thence by family descent to the present owner.