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Niccolò di ser Sozzo Tegliacci
Description
- Niccolò di Ser Sozzo Tegliacci
- Madonna and Child with Two Angels
- tempera, silver and gold ground on panel, unframed
Provenance
Prince Leon Ourusoff, Nice, France, before 1929;
Arthur Sachs (1880-1975), New York;
By whom sold via exchange to F. Steinmeyer, working as an agent for Julius Böhler Gallery, Munich and Lucerne, 1929;
With Galerie Paul Cassirer, Amsterdam, 1933-1952 (on consignment from Julius Böhler);
Returned unsold to Böhler, 1952;
From whom acquired by Thomas S. Hyland, Greenwich, CT, 1958 (as Luca di Tommè);
From whom acquired by The J. Paul Getty Museum, 1970.
Exhibited
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Italiaansche Kunst in Nederlandsch Bezit, 1 July - 1 October 1934, no. 389 (as Luca di Tommè);
Hartford, CT, Wadsworth Atheneum, An Exhibition of Italian Panels and Manuscripts from the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries in Honor of Richard Offner, 9 April - 6 June 1965, no. 28.
Literature
U. Thieme-Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler, Leipzig 1938, vol. 32, p. 502;
F. Zeri, "Sul problema di Nicolò Tegliacci e Luca di Tomè," in Paragone, vol. 105 (September 1958), p. 9;
F. Zeri, "Angelo Puccinelli a Siena," in Bolletino d'arte, vol. 49 (1964) p. 232, reproduced fig. 4;
M. Bucci, "Proposte per Nicolò di Ser SozzoTegliacci," in Paragone, vol. 105 (1965) p. 60 (note 3);
B. Klesse, Seidenstoffe in der Italienischen Malerei des 14. Jahrhunderts, Bern 1967, pp. 202, 285, nos. 72, 188;
B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Central and North Italian Schools, New York 1968, vol. I, p. 425, reproduced vol. II, pl. 359;
S.A. Fehm, Jr., Luca di Tommè (Fourteenth Century Sienese Painter), Yale 1971, unpublished Ph.D. diss., vol. I, pp. xx, 60-61, 77; vol. IV, p. 81, no. 72 (under rejected attributions), reproduced fig. 95;
B. Fredericksen, Catalogue of the Paintings in The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu 1972, pp. 4-5, no. 4;
S.A. Fehm, Jr., "The Collaboration of Niccolò Tegliacci and Luca di Tommè," in The J. Paul Getty Museum Publication, no. 5 (1973), pp. 11-12, 29 (note 17);
C. de Benedictis, "Sull'attività giovanile di Niccolò Tegliacci," in Paragone, vol. 291 (1974) p. 57, reproduced pl. 55;
S.A. Fehm, Jr., "Attributional Problems surrounding Luca di Tommè," in Essays Presented to Myron P. Gilmore, Florence 1978, vol. II, p. 156;
C. de Benedictis, La pittura senese 1330-1370, Florence 1979, p. 95;
E. Carli, La pittura senese del Trecento, Milan 1981, p. 224;
S.A. Fehm, Jr., Luca di Tommè: A Sienese Fourteenth-Century Painter, Edwardsville, IL 1986, p. 23 note 27;
D. Jaffé, Summary Catalogue of European Paintings in The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles 1997, p. 124, reproduced.
Condition
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