LOT DETAILS

Materials:

tempera on panel

Size Notes:

overall: 65.4 x 50.8 cm

Literature:

A.C.R. Carter, "The Art Sales of 1915", in The Year's Art, 37, 1916, p. 409;; R. van Marle, The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, The Renaissance Painters of Florence in the 15th Century: The Third Generation, vol. XIII, The Hague 1931, p. 447 (as by Pier Francesco Fiorentino);; C. Virch, The Adele and Arthur Lehman Collection, New York 1965, pp. 34–35, reproduced (where given to the Lippi-Pesellino Imitators);; F. Zeri and E. Gardner, Italian Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Florentine School, New York 1971, pp. 67-68, reproduced (where given to the Lippi-Pesellino Imitators);; B.B. Fredericksen and F. Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, Cambridge, Mass. 1972, pp. 134, 329, 609 (as Pseudo Pier Francesco Fiorentino);; The Toledo Museum of Art: European Paintings, Toledo 1976, p. 125 (where described as a variant of the Toledo Madonna by Pesellino);; K. Baetjer, European Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by artists born in or before 1865, vol. I, New York 1980, p. 108, reproduced, vol. II, p. 23 (where given to the Lippi-Pesellino Imitators);; K. Baetjer, European Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by artists born in or before 1865, New York 1995, p. 22, reproduced (as Pseudo Pier Francesco Fiorentino);; L. Puppi, Opus Sacrum, exhibition catalogue, Warsaw 1990, p. 90, (as Pesellino).

Provenance:

Charles T.D. Crews, 41 Portman Square, London, until 1915; By whose Estate sold, London, Christie's, 1-2 July 1915, lot 153, for 125 gns. to Dunthorne; R. Langton Douglas (1864-1951), London, 1915–16; Arthur Lehman (1873-1936), New York; By inheritance to his widow, Adele Lehman (1882-1965), New York; By whom bequeathed in memory of her husband to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1965 (inv. no. 65.181.4).