Property from a Private German Collection
Francesco Signorelli
The Adoration of the Shepherds
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April 28, 01:04 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
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Description
Property from a Private German Collection
Francesco Signorelli
Active in Cortona during the first half of the 16th Century
The Adoration of the Shepherds
oil on panel, a tondo
unframed diameter: 75.3 cm.; 29⅝ in.
framed: 98 x 98 cm.; 38⅝ x 38⅝ in.
We are grateful to Dr Laurence Kanter for identifying this tondo as a work by Francesco Signorelli and for dating it to the 1530s. The painting was previously attributed to Tommaso Bernabei following a misunderstanding common until as recently as the 1990s, which confused Bernabei and Francesco Signorelli.1 Francesco Signorelli was the nephew and artistic heir to the more renowned Luca Signorelli.
1 L. Kanter, ‘Francesco Signorelli’, in Arte Cristiana, LXXXII, 1994, pp. 199–212.