LOT DETAILS

Materials:

tempera on poplar panel

Measurements:

16.22 in. (41.20 cm.) (height) by 49.02 in. (124.50 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

London, New Gallery,. Early Italian Art ,. 1893-94, no. 15 (as Florentine School);. London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, School of Siena , 1904, no. 40 (as follower of Francesco di Giorgio); . Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, Pictures from Lockinge House , Wantage, 1934, no.19; . London, Thomas Agnew & Sons, Ltd, Summer Exhibition by Old Masters, Including a Group on Loan from The Lockinge Collection , 1956, no. 2; . Fermoy Art Gallery, Kings Lynn, Renaissance Painting in Tuscany 1300-1500 , 21 July - 4 August 1973, no. 22

Literature:

G. Redford,. Descriptive Catalogue of the Pictures at Lockinge House , 1875, pp. 15-16, no. 15 (as early Italian);. S. Colvin (ed.), A Florentine Picture Chronicle , London 1898, reproduced plates XVI-XVII; . P. Misciattelli, ' La donna senese del Quattrocento nella vita privata ', in Bollettino senese di storia patria , 8, 1901 (according to Misciattelli 1929, p. 122); . A. G. Temple, A Catalogue of the Pictures Forming the Collection of Lord and Lady Wantage , 1902, pp. 57-58, no. 81, reproduced (as Florentine School); . A. Peraté, 'L'exposition d'art sienois à Sienne et à Londres' , in Les Arts , 33, 1904, pp. 2-16 and Les Arts, 34, 1904, pp. 10-25 (according to Camporeale 2005, pp. 494, 512 n. 104); . A. G. Temple, A Catalogue of the Pictures Forming the Collection of Lord and Lady Wantage , 1905, p. 65, no. 81, reproduced (as Florentine School); . Prince d'Essling and E. Müntz, 'Pétrarque, ses etudes d'art, son influence sur les artistes', in Gazette des Beaux-Arts , Paris 1902, pp. 148, 273 (as Florentine School); . B. Berenson, The Central Italian Painters of the Renaissance, 2 nd ed., New York and London 1909, p. 171 (as Francesco di Giorgio); . P. Schubring, Cassoni , Leipzig 1915, I, pp. 328-29, no. 464, II, reproduced plate CIX (as Francesco di Giorgio?); . A. McComb, 'The Life and Works of Francesco di Giorgio', in Art Studies , Princeton 1924, p. 24; . Guide to the Pictures at Lockinge House (A.T. Loyd's collection), 1928, p. 21; . P. Misciattelli, 'Cassoni Senesi', in La Diana , iv, 1929, p. 122, reproduced plate 15 (as Francesco di Giorgio); . P. Misciattelli, 'Un ritratto di gentildonna senese del secolo XV', in La Diana , v, 1930, pp. 236-37, pl. 2 (as Francesco di Giorgio); . B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance , Oxford, 1932, p. 203 (as Francesco di Giorgio); . S. Brinton, Francesco di Giorgio Martini of Siena , London 1934, I, pp. 33, 110 (as Francesco di Giorgio); . R. van Marle, The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting , XVI, 1937, p. 283 (as shop of Francesco di Giorgio); . A. S. Weller, Francesco di Giorgio , Chicago 1943, p. 311 (to a design by Francesco di Giorgio but not his execution); . The Illustrated London News , 30 June 1956; . G. Carandente, I trionfi del primo Rinascimento , Moncalieri/Turin 1963, pp. 67-68, 131 n. 155, fig. 59 (as workshop of Francesco di Giorgio); . L. Parris (ed.), The Loyd Collection of Paintings and Drawings at Betterton House, Lockinge near Wantage, Berkshire , London 1967, p. 20, no. 2 (as school of Francesco di Giorgio); . B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Central and North Italian Schools , London 1968, vol. I p. 140 (in greater part by Francesco di Giorgio); . B.B. Frederiksen, The cassone panels of Francesco di Giorgio, J. Paul Getty Museum publications, no. 4, 1969, p. 44, fig. 29 (as Liberale da Verona?); . R. Toledano, Francesco di Giorgio Martini. Pittore e scultore , Milan 1987, p. 154, cat. no. A23 (as Pellegrino di Mariano?); . F. Russell, The Loyd Collection of Paintings, Drawings and Sculptures , 1991, p. 11, no. 27, reproduced plate 2 (as circle of Francesco di Giorgio); . A. De Marchi in Francesco di Giorgio e il Rinascimento a Siena, 1450-1500 . (ed. L. Bellosi), exh. cat., Siena, chiesa di Sant'Agostino, Milan, 1993, p. 242, under no. 38 (as Liberale da Verona); . W. Einhorn, Spiritalis unicornis. Das Einhorn als Bedeutungsträger in Literatur und Kunst des Mittelalters , Munich 1998, p. 448 (as Francesco di Giorgio?); . E. Camporeale,'L'esposizione di arte senese del 1904 al Burlington Fine Arts Club di Londra', in Il segreto della civiltà. La mostra dell'Antica Arte Senese del 1904 cento anni dopo , G. Cantelli, L. S. Pacchierotti, B. Pulcinelli (eds), Siena 2005, pp. 234, 494, 496-97, 512 n. 104 and 116, reproduced fig. 13 (as circle of Liberale da Verona); . To be included in M. Vinco, Cassoni. Pittura profana del Rinascimento a Verona , Milano 2018, cat. 8 (forthcoming) (as by Liberale da Verona

Provenance:

Alexander Barker (. c . 1797-1874), Piccadilly, London;. His sale, London, Christie's, 6 June 1874, lot 24 (as early Italian School) for 69 guineas; . There bought by Samuel Jones Loyd, later 1st Baron Overstone (1796-1883); . Thence by inheritance to his son-in-law Brigadier-General Robert Loyd-Lindsay, 1st Baron Wantage, VC, KCB, VD (1832-1901), Lockinge, Oxfordshire; . Thence by descent to the present owner