LOT DETAILS

Materials:

tempera on panel, marouflaged, gold ground

Size Notes:

painted surface: 50.2 by 34.3 cm.

Markings:

inscribed on the reverse in a late 19th-century (?) hand: Pietro di Domenico of Siena

Literature:

F.M. Perkins, "Pitture senesi negli Stati Uniti," in Rassegna d'arte senese, vol. I, no. 2, 1905, p. 78 (as Pietro di Domenico);; B. Berenson, "Quadri senza casa: Il Quattrocento senese, II," in Dedalo, 11, 1930-31, pp. 763-64, reproduced (as tentatively attributed to Pietro di Domenico);; R.C. Morrison, "An Elusive Minor Sienese Master of the Fifteenth Century," in Art in America, 18, October 1930, pp. 305-06, 309, reproduced fig. 1 (as Pietro di Domenico);; B. Berenson, "Lost Works of the Last Sienese Masters - Part III," in International Studio, 98, April 1931, p. 22, reproduced fig. 14 (as tentatively attributed to Pietro di Domenico);; B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, Oxford 1932, p. 456 (as tentatively attributed to Pietro di Domenico);; F. Mason Perkins, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler, 27, Leipzig 1933, p. 18 (as Pietro di Domenico);; B. Berenson, Pitture italiane del Rinascimento, Milan 1936, p. 392 (as a youthful work by Pietro di Domenico);; R. van Marle, The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, The Renaissance Painters of Tuscany, The Hague 1937, vol. XVI, p. 456, reproduced fig. 264 (as either the youthful Pietro di Domenico or an anonymous painter);; H.B. Wehle, The Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Catalogue of Italian, Spanish, and Byzantine Paintings, New York 1940, vol. I, pp. 94-95, reproduced (as by Pietro di Domenico);; B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Central Italian and North Italian Schools, London 1968, vol. I, p. 343 (as by Pietro di Domenico);; B. Berenson, Homeless Paintings of the Renaissance, Wiesbaden 1969, pp. 72-74, reproduced fig. 112 (as tentatively attributed to the youthful Pietro di Domenico);; B.B. Fredericksen and F. Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1972, pp. 240, 347, 439, 442, 605 (as by an anonymous Sienese painter);; F. Zeri, Italian Paintings in the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore 1976, vol. I, p. 131 (as by an anonymous Sienese painter);; F. Zeri and E.E. Gardner, Italian Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sienese and Central Italian Schools, New York 1980, p. 99, reproduced plate 85 (as by an unknown Sienese painter active outside Siena); K. Baetjer, European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born in or Before 1865, New York 1980, vol. I, p. 96, reproduced vol. II, p. 74 (as Sienese, late 15th Century);; K. Baetjer, European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born Before 1865, a Summary Catalogue, New York 1995, p. 65, reproduced (as Sienese School, late 15th Century);; M.S. Frinta, "Part I: Catalogue Raisonné of All Punch Shapes," in Punched Decoration on Late Medieval Panel and Miniature Painting, Prague 1998, pp. 222, 234, 365, 386, 469, 475, 539, reproduced pp. 234, 386 (as Sienese School, close to Benvenuto di Giovanni).

Provenance:

Madame d'Oliviera, Florence, until 1887; Acquired from the above by Coudert Brothers LLP, New York, 1887-88; By whom given to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York in 1888, inv. no. 88.3.100 (all the above as Pietro di Domenico).