LOT DETAILS

Materials:

tempera and gold leaf on panel, in an engaged frame, pointed top

Measurements:

50.00 in. (127.00 cm.) (height) by 25.51 in. (64.80 cm.) (width)

Markings:

inscribed with contemporary accounts, 'spessi' and 'pressi', in florins, soldi and denari, beginning 'a di 22 di fevbraio ff 1 s 8 [corrected from 9] a di ...8... ma[rzo?] ... s 10 a di 24 di m[arzo?] ff 2 s 6 7 d a di 2 daprile ff 2 ... [etc.]' and with the later inscription 'Angelus Gaddi opus.' (on the reverse)

Literature:

K. Lacher, Graz: Katalog der Landes-Bildgalerie, 1903, p. 22, no. 188, as Agnolo Gaddi. O. Sirèn, 'Gli affreschi nel Paradiso degli Alberti: Lorenzo di Niccolò e Mariotto di Nardo', L'Arte, XI, 1908, p. 193, as Mariotto di Nardo, with subject incorrectly described as 'Una piccola Madonna seduta'. B. Khvoshinsky and M. Salmi, I pittori toscani dal XIII al XVI secolo, II, Rome, 1914, p. 61, as Mariotto di Nardo. W.E. Suida, Die Landesbildergalerie und Skultursammlung in Graz, Joanneum Museum, Graz, Vienna, 1923, p. 71, no. 190, pl. 28, as Lorenzo di Niccolò. B. Berenson, Pitture italiane del rinascimento, Milan, 1936, p. 260, as Lorenzo di Niccolò. B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Florentine School, London, 1963, I, p. 123, as Lorenzo di Niccolò. B. Klesse, Seidenstoffe in der italienischen Malerei des 14. Jahrhunderts, Bern, 1967, p. 336, no. 272f, as Lorenzo di Niccolò. A.M. Gealt, Lorenzo di Niccolò, unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Indiana University, 1979, p. 157, as 'Lost after World War II'.

Provenance:

Edmund, Graf von Attems (1847-1929), Graz, Austria, by whom loaned to the Joanneum Museum, Graz, until circa 1924 and remaining with the family until at least 1938. Dr. Alfred Scharf, by 1954, as Mariotto di Nardo.