LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil and tempera on panel

Measurements:

80.51 in. (204.50 cm.) (height) by 68.70 in. (174.50 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

London, P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Discoveries from the Cinquecento, June 17 - August 7, 1982, no. 27.

Literature:

M. Bacci, L' Opera completa di Piero di Cosimo, Milan 1976, p. 86, no. 8; C. Whitfield, Discoveries from the Cinquecento, exhibition catalogue, London, P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., June 17 - August 7, 1982, pp. 56-8, cat. no. 27, reproduced p. 57; J. Beck & A. Schultz, "The Origins of Piero di Cosimo", in Source, vol. IV, no. 4, Summer 1985, p. 13, footnote 12; S. Fermor, Piero di Cosimo. Fiction, Invention and Fantasia, London 1993, pp. 121 ff.; A. Padoa Rizzo, "Ancora sulla Madonna di Piazza", in F. Falletti (ed.), I Medici, il Verrocchio e Pistoia. Storia e restauro di due capolavori nella cattedrale di S. Zeno, exhibition catalogue, Livorno 1996, p. 72, footnote 14, reproduced p. 73, fig. 92; A. Padoa Rizzo, "Arte a Pistoia nel Quattrocento", in C. D'Afflitto (ed.), L'Età di Savonarola: Fra' Paolino e la Pittura a Pistoia nel primo '500, exhibition catalogue, Pistoia, Palazzo Comunale, April 24 - July 31, 1996, pp. 43-44, and p. 49, footnote 23, reproduced fig. 22; A.F. Tempesti & E. Capretti, Piero di Cosimo, Catalogo completo, Florence 1996, pp. 106-7, cat. no. 13, reproduced in colour p. 39 and a detail p. 40; D. Geronimus, Piero di Cosimo, Visions Beautiful and Strange, London 2006, pp. 190-93, 282, and 328, footnotes 78 ff., reproduced in colour p. 191, fig. 148.

Provenance:

Otto Lanz, Amsterdam; G.B. Lanz, Rennaz, Switzerland; Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, December 9, 1987, lot 4, to Colnaghi; By whom purchased for the present collector.