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Property from a European Private Collection

MASTER OF SAN JACOPO A MUCCIANA | A portable triptych: The Madonna and Child flanked by saints (central panel); Saint Christopher (left wing); The Crucufixion (right wing)

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December 5, 12:50 PM GMT

Estimate

70,000 - 100,000 GBP

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Property from a European Private Collection

MASTER OF SAN JACOPO A MUCCIANA

active in Florence between 1390 and 1420

A portable triptych: The Madonna and Child flanked by saints (central panel); Saint Christopher (left wing); The Crucufixion (right wing)


tempera on panel, gold ground, with a later engaged frame and extensions measuring 3.2 cm. to the lower edge of both wings

central panel: overall dimensions: 62 x 28.5 cm.; 24⅜ x 11¼ in.; painted surface: 40 x 19 cm.; 15¾ x 7½ in.

each wing: overall dimensions: 55 x 14 cm.; 21⅝ x 5½ in.; painted surface: 45 x 10 cm.; 17¾ x 3⅞ in.

This triptych is closely connected to another given to the Master of San Jacopo a Mucciana, formerly in the collection of Carlo de Carlo, Florence, and since 1998 in a private Brescian collection.1 The Brescia triptych also depicts the Madonna and Child enthroned and flanked by saints, and wings depicting Saint Christopher and The Crucifixion, topped by a representation of The Annunciation. Only the identity of the saints flanking the Madonna and Child is different. Here, we see Saint John the Baptist and an unidentified bishop saint, whereas the Brescian triptych depicts Saint Anthony Abbot and Saint James the Greater.


We are grateful to Mauro Natale and Dr Gaudenz Freuler for independently endorsing the attribution of this triptych to the Master of San Jacopo a Mucciana.


1 Fondazione Zeri Archive, ref. no. 3302; see M. Boskovits, Pittura Fiorentina alla vigilia del Rinascimento 1370–1400, Florence 1975, p. 238, reproduced fig. 404.