Collector, Dealer, Connoisseur: The Vision of Richard L. Feigen
Collector, Dealer, Connoisseur: The Vision of Richard L. Feigen
Benozzo de Lese di Sandro, called Benozzo Gozzoli
The Adoration of the Christ Child
Auction Closed
October 18, 03:29 PM GMT
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Benozzo de Lese di Sandro, called Benozzo Gozzoli
Florence circa 1420/22 - 1497 Pistoia
The Adoration of the Christ Child
inscribed in ink and brush on the reverse: Benozzo Gozzoli / 1466 / N.o 53 / Ecole Lombarde. Fin du xv.e siecle / Vaux 200 fcs
tempera on panel
panel: 19 7/8 by 13 in.; 50.5 by 33 cm.
framed: 25 1/8 by 18 5/8 in.; 63.8 by 47.3 cm.
Possibly, private collection, France (according to the inscription on the reverse of the panel);
Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 12 July 2001, lot 60 (as Alesso di Benozzo);
There acquired by Richard L. Feigen.
Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 12 July 2001, lot 60 (as Alesso di Benozzo);
There acquired by Richard L. Feigen.
D. Cole Ahl, "Da Roma a Montefalco," in Benozzo Gozzoli: Allievo a Roma, maestro in Umbria, exhibition catalogue, Milan 2002, pp. 186-187, reproduced fig. 6;
P. Palladino, in Fra Angelico, exhibition catalogue, New York 2005, pp. 309-311;
L. Kanter, in Italian Paintings from the Richard L. Feigen Collection, New Haven 2010, pp. 90-91, cat. no. 27, reproduced.
P. Palladino, in Fra Angelico, exhibition catalogue, New York 2005, pp. 309-311;
L. Kanter, in Italian Paintings from the Richard L. Feigen Collection, New Haven 2010, pp. 90-91, cat. no. 27, reproduced.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Summer 2001 (on loan);
New Haven, Yale, Italian Paintings from the Richard L. Feigen Collection, 28 May – 12 September 2010, no. 27.
New Haven, Yale, Italian Paintings from the Richard L. Feigen Collection, 28 May – 12 September 2010, no. 27.