LOT DETAILS

Materials:

two pilaster panels, both gold ground, tempera on panel

Size Notes:

each

Markings:

inscribed in pastiglia [S. BAR]TOLOME us and S: MARIA [ A and R conjoined] : MA ...

Condition:

in integral frames

Exhibited:

Stuttgart, Württembergische Staatsgalerie, Frühe Italienische Tafelmalerei, May 13-June 25, 1950, hors catalogue.

Literature:

H.D. Gronau, "Early Italian Paintings at Stuttgart," in The Burlington Magazine, XCII, November, 1950, p. 325, and note 14; G. Coor, "Trento-Gemälde aus der Sammlung Ramboux," in the Wallraf-Richartz Jahrbuch, XVLLL, 1956, p. 131. M. Boskovits, "Ancora su Spinello Aretino: Proposte e inediti," in Antichità Viva, 2, V, 1966, p. 23, note 6, reproduced figs. 7 and 8; A.R. Calderoni Masetti, Spinello Aretino giovane, (Raccolta pisana di saggi e studi, 35), Florence 1973, p. 15, note 32; S.A. Fehm, "Notes on Spinello Aretino's so-called Monte Oliveto Altarpiece," in Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, 2-3, XVII, 1973, p. 266 and note 20, reproduced figs. 12 and 13; M. Boskovits, Pittura fiorentina alla vigilia del rinascimento 1370-1400, Florence 1975, p. 437, reproduced figs. 504-505; J. Pope-Hennessy, The Robert Lehman Collection, Italian Paintings, New York 1987, p. 72; F. Dabell, "Spinello Aretino," in The Dictionary of Art, London-New York 1996, Vol. 29, p. 405; S. Weppelmann, Spinello Aretino und die Toskanische Malerei des 14. Jahrhunderts, Florence 2003, pp. 153-154, cat. no. 22, reproduced figs. 22a and 22b.

Provenance:

Originally part of an altarpiece painted for Santa Maria Nuova, Rome or for Monte Oliveto Maggiore, Siena; Possibly Johann Anton Ramboux, Cologne;1. Gio Scrivanelli[?}/ Perugia inscribed on the back of the panel of Mary Magdalene; Heffner collection, Würzburg, in the mid-19th century; By inheritance to Carl Lamb (1905-1968), Munich, through his mother née Heffner; From whom acquired by Gerhard Freiherr von Preuschen, Stuttgart, in 1951; From whom acquired (via the Munich-based dealer Heinrich Steinmeyer) by Paul Drey, New York, in 1958;2. Private collection, London; With Agnew's, London; From whom purchased by G. Hamilton Southam, Ottawa, ON, in 1972; Thence by descent to the present owner.