Collector, Dealer, Connoisseur: The Vision of Richard L. Feigen

Collector, Dealer, Connoisseur: The Vision of Richard L. Feigen

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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.
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.
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.