LOT DETAILS

Materials:

tempera on panel, gold ground, with a shaped top, the corners of which are made up

Size Notes:

overall; painted surface: 38.1 x 25 cm

Literature:

Katalog der Gemälde alter italienischer Meister (1221-1640) in der Sammlung J.A. Ramboux, Cologne 1862, p. 14;. J. Niessen, Verzeichniss der Gemälde-Sammlung des Museums Wallraf-Richartz in Köln, Cologne 1869 (reprinted 1873, 1874, 1877 and 1888), p. 40, cat. no. 767 (as Taddeo di Bartolo);. H. Thode, "Pitture di maestri italiani nelle galerie minori di Germania," in Archivio storico dell'arte, vol. II, 1889, p. 51 (as Taddeo di Bartolo);. F. Mason Perkins, "Appunti sulla mostra Ducciana a Siena," in Rassegna d'Arte, vol. XIII, 1913, p. 38, cat. no. 4 (as a contemporary follower of Bartolo di Fredi or Luca di Tommè);. B. Berenson, "Quadri senza casa: Il Trecento senese," in Dedalo, vol. XI, 1930, p. 263, reproduced p. 266 (as Niccolò di Segna);. B. Berensen, "The Missing Pictures of the Sienese Trecento," in International Studio, vol. 97, October 1931, p. 31, reproduced fig. 2 (as Niccolò di Segna);. B. Berenson, Homeless Paintings of the Renaissance, Bloomington 1970, pp. 20-21 and 244, reproduced fig. 10 (as Niccolò di Segna);. J.H. Stubblebine, Duccio di Buoninsegna and his school, Princeton 1979, vol. I, p. 154, reproduced vol. II, fig. 486 (as Niccolò di Segna);. S.A. Fehm, Luca di Tommé, A Sienese Fourteenth Century Painter, Carbondale 1986, pp. 35 and 101, reproduced figs. 23-1 and 23-2 (as Luca di Tommé)..

Provenance:

The church of Santa Mustiola alla Rosa, Siena, as the pinnacle of an altarpiece;. From where removed, along with the rest of the altarpiece, to the Capuchin convent of San Quirico, Ossena;. From where detached from the altarpiece and passed to Jean Anton Ramboux, Cologne, by 1862;. His sale, Cologne, J.M. Heberle (H. Lempertz), 23 May 1867, lot 105 (as Taddeo di Bartolo);. Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, by 1889 and by whom sold in 1925;. With Ehrlich Galleries, New York, in 1926;. Anonymous sale, ("The Property of a Private Collector"), New York, Christie's, 31 May 1991, lot 11;. Anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby's, 25 January 2001, lot 1;. There purchased by the present collector.