LOT DETAILS
Materials:
oil on panel
Size Notes:
88.2 x 65.2 cm.
Description:
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Exhibited:
Forl, Musei San Domenico, Marco Palmezzano, il Rinascimento nelle Romagne, 4 December 2005-30 April 2006, no. 5, as 'Circle of Melozzo da Forl, The Master of the Figdor Saint Eustace'.
Literature:
S. Tumidei, Melozzo da Forl, La sua citt e il suo tempo, exhibition catalogue, Milan, 1994, pp. 60, 61, 66-68, illustrated, as 'Circle of Melozzo da Forl, possibly a Roman artist'.Gemldegalerie Berlin, Gesamtverzeichnis, Berlin, 1994, p. 322, under cat. no. 2143, as 'UmbroRoman, end of the 15th century'.N. Ceroni, Pinacoteca comunale di Ravenna, Museo d'Arte della Citt, La Collezione Antica, Ravenna, 2001, p. 52, as 'possibly Marco Palmezzano while still under the influence of Melozzo da Forli' (entry by A. Tambini). A. Tambini, 'Postille a Palmezzano,' Romagna Arte e Storia, XXIII, 2003, p. 32, note 10, as 'possibly an early work by Palmezzano'.S. Tumidei, Studi sulla pittura in Emilia e in Romagna. Da Meolzzo a Federico Zuccari, 1987-2008, Trento, 2011, pp. 115-117, fig. 47. D. Benati, M. Natale & A. Paolucci, Melozzo da Forl. L'umana bellezza tra Piero della Francesca e Raffaello, Milan, 2011, pp. 272-275, no. 70.
Provenance:
Conte Umberto Gnoli (1878-1947). Art market, Naples.Private collection, London.Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 6 December 2017, lot 14, where acquired by the present owner.