Sold Without Reserve | MARCHIGIAN SCHOOL, LATE-15TH CENTURY | CHRIST AS MAN OF SORROWS

Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, 1949-1963;

Heinz Kisters, Constanz;

His sale, London, Christie's, 26 June 1970, lot 11 (as circle of Ludovico Brea da Nizza);

Ian Woodner, New York;

By whose family sold ("Property from the Ian Woodner Family Collection"), New York, Christie's, 19 May 1993, lot 20 (as Marchigian School, circa 1480);

There acquired by a private collection, Switzerland;

Anonymous sale, Zurich, Koller Auktionen, 22 March 2013, lot 3002 (as Marchigian School, circa 1480);

There acquired. 

Although the author of this small and expressive panel has yet to be identified, it closely compares to works painted in the Marche in the late 15th century such as a predella of circa 1475-1480 by the Marchigian artist Nicola di Maestro Antonio d'Ancona in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum [1]. 

1. Inv. no. 34.855, tempera on panel, 15.9 by 184.8 cm. See A de Marche and M. Mazzalupi, Pittori ad Ancona nel Quattrocento, Milan 2008, pp. 281-284, cat. no. 5, reproduced.