LOT DETAILS

Materials:

tempera on panel, gold ground

Size Notes:

central panel, overall, with engaged frame; central panel, painted surface: 37.5 x 25.7 cm.; each wing, overall, with engaged frame: 44.1 x 15.9 cm.; each wing, painted surface: 39.4 x 11.7 cm

Description:

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Markings:

inscribed on the Madonna's halo: AVE.GRATIA PLENA.DOMIN[VS]; on Christ Child's halo: [EGO] SVM; on Saint John's scroll: ECCE AGNVSD [EI]

Literature:

Pitture della raccolta del Co.te. Gio Batta Costabili di Ferrara , 1835, c. 21v, no. 205 in the Biblioteca dell'Archiginnasio, Bologna, ms A1324 (ascribed to Giotto);. C. Laderchi,. Descrizione della Quadreria Costabili , Ferrara 1838, vol. 1, p. 24, cat. no. 4 (as Galasso Galassi);. G. Rosini,. Storia della pittura italiana esposta coi monumenti , vol. 2, Pisa 1848. pp. 158, 173, note 8, reproduced pl. 241 (quotes Laderchi's attribution to Galasso Galassi);. J. A. Crowe and G.B. Cavalcaselle,. A History of Painting in North Italy: Venice, Padua, Vicenza, Verona, Ferrara, Milan, Friuli, Brescia, from the Fourteenth to the Sixteenth Century , London 1871, vol. 1, p. 515, note 3 (as Sano di Pietro);. G. Giordani,. Catalogo de' quadri di varie scuole pittoriche nella Galleria Costabili in Ferrara : collezione esposta in vendita , Bologna 1871 and 1872, p. 7, cat. no. 45 (as unknown, Giottesque manner);. J. A. Crowe and G.B. Cavalcaselle,. A History of Painting in North Italy: Venice, Padua, Vicenza, Verona, Ferrara, Milan, Friuli, Brescia, from the Fourteenth to the Sixteenth Century , T. Borenius ed., 2nd ed., London 1912, vol. 2, p. 223, note 4 (here and henceforth as Sano di Pietro);. B. Berenson,. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance , Oxford 1932, p. 500;. B. Berenson, Pitture italiane del rinascimento, Milan 1936, p. 430;. B. Berenson,. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, Central and North Italian Schools , London 1968, vol. 1, p. 376;. F. Zeri with E. E. Gardner, . Italian Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sienese and Central Italian Schools, New York 1980, pp. 82-83, reproduced plates 54 and 55;. K. Baetjer, . European Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art ,. by artists born before 1865 , New York 1980, vol. 1, pp. 165-166, reproduced vol. 2, p. 65;. J. Anderson, "The Rediscovery of Ferrarese Renaissance Painting in the Risorgimento," in. The Burlington Magazine , 135, August 1993, p. 546-547, reproduced figs. 33, 34 (detail of left wing during treatment);. K. Baetjer, . European Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art ,. by artists born before 1865 , New York 1995, p. 57, reproduced;. M.S. Frinta, "Part I: Catalogue Raisonné of All Punch Shapes," in. Punched Decoration on Late Medieval Panel and Miniature Painting , Prague 1998, pp. 191, 261, 425;. E. Mattaliano,. La collezione Costabili , Venice 1998, pp. 34-35, cat. no. 4, reproduced pp. 178-179;. M. Natale and G. Sassu, in. Cosmè Tura e Francesco del Cossa: l'arte a Ferrara nell'età di Borso d'Este , exhibition catalogue, Ferrara 2007, pp. 40, 59, note 13;. D. Sallay,. Early Sienese Paintings in Hungarian Collections, 1420-1520 , PhD. dissertation, Central European University, Budapest 2008, p. 184, note 484;;. D. Sallay,. Corpus of Sienese Paintings in Hungary, 1420-1510 , Florence 2015, p. 139, note 4

Provenance:

Conte, later Marchese, Giovanni Battista Costabili Containi, Ferrara (1756-1841), by 1835;. Thence by descent to his nephew, Marchese Giovanni Battista Costabili Containi (died 1882);. Art market, Ferrara,. Catalogo de' quadri di varie scuole pittoriche nella Galleria Costabili in Ferrara : collezione esposta in vendita , September 1871-May 1873, no. 45 (as unknown, Giottesque manner);. His deceased sale ("Catalogue de Tableaux formant La Galerie de Mr. le Marquis Costabili de Ferrare"), Milan, Sambon, 27-29 April 1885, lot 1 (as Unknown Florentine; School of Cimabue [central panel] and School of Giotto [wings]);. Jesse Isidor Straus (1872-1936), New York, by 1928;. By inheritance to his wife, Irma Nathan Straus, New York;. By whom given to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1964 (Inv. no. 64.189.4