Master Paintings
Master Paintings
Property of a Private Collector
The Holy Family
Auction Closed
May 20, 03:42 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property of a Private Collector
The Master of the Twelve Apostles
active in Ferrara circa 1520 - 1542
The Holy Family
oil on panel, with an arched top
panel without painted additions: 17 ¾ by 11 ½ in.; 45.1 by 29.2 cm.
panel with painted additions: 18 ½ by 12 ¼ in.; 47 by 31.1 cm.
framed: 23 ¼ by 16 ¾ in.; 59.1 by 42.4 cm.
This panel depicting the Holy Family was painted during the first half of the 1530s by the Master of the Twelve Apostles, an anonymous artist active in Ferrara and Rovigo during the second quarter of the 16th century. Savonuzzi was the first to identify the hand of this artist, whom he named after a group of twelve panels depicting half-length apostles in the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Ferrara.1 The works of this master impart the influence of other leading Ferrarese artists, including Garofalo and Mazzolino, as well as Dosso Dossi and Battista Dossi, among others. Though of a slightly earlier date, the present panel can be compared in format and composition to the master's Christ with the Samaritan Woman formerly in the Cini collection,2 as well as to his Noli me tangere in the Glasgow Museums.3We are grateful to Professoressa Alessandra Pattanaro for her assistance in the cataloguing of the present lot
1. C. Savonuzzi, "Il maestro dei Dodici Apostoli," in La critica d'arte, vol. VIII, 6, fasc. XXXII, March 1950, pp. 477-80.
2. Pattanaro 2005, p. 30, reproduced fig. 20.
3. https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/noli-me-tangere-85173