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.