LOT DETAILS

Materials:

tempera and gold on panel

Measurements:

35.75 in. (90.80 cm.) (height) by 14.02 in. (35.60 cm.) (width)

Literature:

F. Zeri, 'Un'aggiunta al Problema della 'Madonna' Cagnola,' Paragone, no. 93, September 1957, pp. 11-16, fig. 9b, as a Lombard master, c.1460-1470. L. Castelfranchi-Vegas, 'I rapporti Italia-Fiandra', Paragone, no. 201, 1966, p. 55 as Zanetto Bugatto. M.T. Franco Florio, 'Bugati, Zanetto' in Dizionario biografico degli Italiani, Rome, 1972, XV, p. 15, as possibly by Zanetto Bugatto. F. Bologna, Napoli e le rotte mediterranee della pittura, Naples, 1977, p. 114, repeats Zeri's attribution. S. Siracusano, Antonello da Messina, exhibition catalogue, Messina, 1981, p. 199, as 'Zanetto Bugatto ?'. B. Fredericksen and F. Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, Cambridge, MA, 1972, pp. 231, 402, as 'Lombard, 15th century'. The Toledo Museum of Art: European Paintings, Toledo, 1976, p. 396, as 'attributed to Zanetto Bugatto'. C. Volpe in Early Italian Paintings and Works of Art, 1300-1480, London, Matthiesen Fine Art, exhibition catalogue, as 'The Master of the Cagnola Madonna (Zanetto Bugatto?)'. L. Martini, 'Richerche sul Quattrocento ligure: Nicolò Corso tra lombardi e fiamminghi', Prospettiva, XXXVIII, 1984, p. 44, fig. 2, as 'Zanetto Bugatto (?)'. M. Boskovits, The Martello Collection: Paintings, Drawings and Miniatures from the XIVth to the XVIIIth Centuries, Florence, 1985, p. 80, as the Master of the Cagnola Madonna, sometimes identified as Zanetto Bugatto. F. Sricchia Santoro, Antonello e l'Europa, Milan, 1986, pp. 77, as Nicolò Corso. M. Boskovits, 'Nicolò Corso e gli altri: Spigolature di pittura lombardo-ligure di secondo Quattrocento', Arte cristiana, LXXV, 1987, pp. 354-355, as Nicolò Corso (?). G. Algeri and A. De Floriani, La pittura in Liguria: il Quattrocento, Genoa, 1991, pp. 397, 399, fig. 357, note 15, as 'Nicolò Corso.'. L. Syson, 'Zanetto Bugatto, Court Portraitist in Sforza Milan', Burlington Magazine, CXXXVIII, no. 1118, May 1996, p. 308, under 'attributions to Zanetto that should be treated with some caution'. Genova e l'Europa mediterranea: opere, artisti, committenti, collezionisti, exhibition catalogue, Genoa, 2005, p. 186, fig. 3, as Nicolò Corso (catalogue entry by A. De Floriani).

Provenance:

Palazzo Porto, Venice, according to a label on the reverse. with Duveen, New York. Edward Drummond Libbey, by whom gifted in 1913 to the Toledo Museum of Art.