LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on panel, gold ground

Measurements:

69.96 in. (177.70 cm.) (height) by 58.62 in. (148.90 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed lower centre: LEONARDVS/ F. BERNA/RDINI/ DEPi/ STORioR/ P.

Literature:

V. Capponi, Biografia Pistoiese, Pistoia 1878, p. 421;; G. Nerucci, in Bollettino storico pistoiese, I, 1899, p. 160;; G. D. Gronau, "Una tavola di scuola pistoiese", in Rivista d'Arte, year XI, no. 2, April - June 1929, pp. 214-219, reproduced fig. 1;; C. D'Afflito, F. Falletti, A. Muzzi, L'Età di Savonarola: Fra' Paolino e la Pittura a Pistoia nel primo '500, exhibition catalogue, Pistoia, Palazzo Comunale, 24 April - 31 July 1996, pp. 141 and 143.

Provenance:

Private collection, Genoa, 1878; On the London auction market in the 1890s; With Thomas Harris, Conduit St., London; Otto Froehlich, Vienna; Acquired by the present owner's great-uncle in 1927 for 425,000 pesetas; Thence by descent.