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Property from a Connecticut Collection

Master of the Arma Christi of San Lorenzo

Emperor Trajan on Horseback with his Courtiers

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February 1, 09:24 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Connecticut Collection

The Master of the Arma Christi of San Lorenzo

active in Verona at the end of the 15th century

Emperor Trajan on Horseback with his Courtiers


tempera on panel with gold ground details

panel: 16 ¼ by 20 in.; 41.3 by 50.8 cm.

framed: 21 ⅜ by 24 ¼ in.; 54.3 by 61.6 cm.

Enrico Cernuschi (1876 - 1896), Paris;

With Julius Böhler, Munich, by 1911;

Charles Blount, by 1920;

Private collection,

With Blumka Gallery, New York;

From whom acquired, 9 December 2003.

New York, Blumka Gallery and Julius Böhler, Collecting Treasures of the Past IV, 2004, no. 1, reproduced.

E. Muntz, Histoire de l’art pendant la Renaissance, 1889, vol. 1, p. 311, reproduced, (as Italian School, 15th Century);

E. von Baldass, Gemalde in Verstigerung der hinterlassenen Sammlung des Herrn Emil Weinberger Vienna, 22 - 24 October 1929, p. 114, under lot no. 458 (as North Italian School, circa 1470, in discussion of the connected panel of the Trajan’s Son Trampling the Widow’s Son, then in the Weinberger collection);

Collecting Treasures of the Past. IV, exhibition catalogue, Munich 2004, n.p., cat. no. 1, reproduced;

M. Vinco, Cassoni: Pittura profana del Rinascimento a Verona, Milan 2018, pp. 180-183, cat. no. 47.1, reproduced in color p. 180 (as attributed to the workshop of Domenico Morone, in particular the Master of the Arma Christi of San Lorenzo).