LOT DETAILS

Materials:

tempera (?) and oil on panel

Measurements:

25.75 in. (65.40 cm.) (height) by 20.00 in. (50.80 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 'Opus. Bar*olom..Montag.di 24 Sep..mbris 1507' (lower center)

Exhibited:

Columbus, Gallery of Fine Arts, The Renaissance Image of Man and the World, 27 October-27 November 1961, no. 27. Athens, Trisolini Gallery Ohio University, Selected Paintings and Drawings of the Italian Renaissance, 4-24 February 1975, no. 5.

Literature:

E.A. Cicogna, Delle Inscrizioni Veneziane, Raccolte ed Illustrate.., Venice, 1853, IV, pp. 349, 380, 388, no. 16. A. Magrini, Elogio di Bartolomeo Montagna, Venice, 1863, p. 38. F. Harck, 'Quadri di Maestri Italiani in Possesso di Privati a Berlino', Archivo storico dell'Arte, serial 1, II, nos. 5-6, 1889, pp. 213-214. A. Foratti, Bartolomeo Montagna, Padua, 1908, p. 31. T. Borenius, The Painters of Vicenza 1480-1550, London, 1909, p. 63. J.A. Crowe and C.B. Cavalcaselle, A History of Painting in North Italy, New York, 1912, II, p. 136. B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Venetian School, London, 1957, I, p. 115. L. Puppi, Bartolomeo Montagna, Venice, 1962, pp. 64, 101-102, no. 156. K. Paris, ed., The Frederick W. Schumacher Collection, Columbus, 1976, pp. 134-136.

Provenance:

San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, circa 1616. John Strange, Venice, circa 1773-88. (Possibly) with Celotti, Italy. Signor Rotamerendis, Venice, 1850. Dr. Fritz Harck, Seusslitz, 1889. Frederick W. Schumacher, Columbus, Ohio, circa 1925, and by bequest to the. Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio, 1957.