Circle of Domenico Morone

With E. and A. Silberman Galleries, New York;
W.J. Ashford;
Anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby's, May 30, 1979, lot 249, there purchased by the father of the present owner.

The shape of the present panel suggests that it must have formed part of a cassone; the contour of the pictoral space corresponds with the painted parts of cassoni fronts made in Verona in the late 15th Century, where two painted reserves were surrounded by elaborate pastiglia work (a more intact example was in the collection of Achilitto Chiesa, his sale, New York, American Art Galleries, 16 April, 1926, lot 38, attributed to Parentino).  A panel of of similar format is in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art (inv.1916.790).  That panel measures 47.5 by 53.8cm and appears to have the same curved edges of the pictoral space all around which have been added to at a later date to give it a more standard appearance.