LOT DETAILS

Materials:

tempera on panel, gold ground

Measurements:

45.04 in. (114.40 cm.) (height) by 18.82 in. (47.80 cm.) (width)

Literature:

B. Berenson, The Central Italian Painters of the Renaissance, New York and London 1909, p. 141 (as Bartolo di Fredi); M. Meiss, "Notes on Three Linked Sienese Styles," in Art Bulletin, XLV, 1, March 1963, p. 48, note 12 (as by the so-called "Sienese Master of the Magdalen Legend," a follower of Luca di Tommè); B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Central Italian and North Italian Schools, vol. I, London and New York 1968, p. 30 (as Bartolo di Fredi); C. De Benedictis, La pittura senese, 1330-1370, Florence 1979, p. 67, note 80; S. D'Argenio in M. Gregori, ed., La Fondazione Roberto Longhi a Firenze, Milan 1980, p. 242, cited under no. 22; G. Chelazzi Dini, in Il Gotico a Siena, exhibition catalogue, Siena 1982, p. 278, cited under no. 103; C. Volpe, Early Italian Paintings and Works of Art, 1300-1480, exhibition catalogue (Matthiesen Fine Art Ltd), London 1983, p. 29; S.A. Fehm, Jr., Luca di Tommè: A Sienese Fourteenth-Century Painter, Carbondale, Illinois 1986, pp. 26, 35, note 21 (as 'Workshop of Luca di Tommè'); G. Freuler, "L'Eredità di Pietro Lorenzetti verso il 1350: novità per Biagio di Goro, Niccolò di Ser Sozzo e Luca di Tommè," in Nuovi studi, 4, 1997, pp. 20, 23-26, 31, notes 41, 47-48, 56, reproduced figs. 30 (reconstruction of altarpiece), 31, 32, 34; P. Palladino, in the exhibition catalogue Art and Devotion in Siena after 1350: Luca di Tommè and Niccolò di Buonaccorso, San Diego, California, Timken Museum of Art, 1997-1998, pp. 40/43, 46, reproduced p. 42, figs. 39-41.

Provenance:

Probably commissioned by the Arte della Lana, or Wool Merchants Guild, for the Vallombrosan Church of San Michele in Siena; Henri Chalandon, La Grange Blanche, Parcieux, near Trévoux, by 1907; Chalandon family, from whom acquired directly by the present owners probably in the mid 1950s.