Lot 68
  • 68

Follower of Giovanni Bellini

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Description

  • Giovanni Bellini
  • The Madonna and Child
  • oil on panel, in a carved and gilt wood frame

Provenance

Karner Collection Vienna;
Anonymous sale, Cologne, Lempertz, 8 November 1961, lot 30.

Literature

L. Coletti, Cima da Conegliano, Venice 1959, reproduced plate 19 (as an autograph work by Cima);
P. Humfrey, Cima da Conegliano, Cambridge 1983, pp. 193-4, cat. no. 238, reproduced plate 201a (under 'Rejected attributions and related works').

Catalogue Note

Although originally attributed to Cima da Conegliano and dated to the 1490s by Colletti (see Literature; with wrong dimensions, 52.7 by 58.8 cm), the attribution was rejected by Peter Humfrey who regards it as 'fairly remote'  from Cima's Ĺ“uvre. Another version of this composition is listed by Heinemann as in the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge (Mass.), as by Lattanzio da Rimini (see F. Heinemann, Giovanni Bellini e i Belliniani, Venice 1959, vol. I, p. 112, cat. no. S.162, reproduced vol. II, p. 278, plate 299). It is most likely that both of these panels relate to a lost design by Giovanni Bellini.