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

Niccolò di Pietro Gerini

The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence

Auction Closed

October 18, 03:29 PM GMT

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Niccolò di Pietro Gerini

active in Florence, Pisa and Prato between 1366 - circa 1414/15

The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence

tempera on panel, gold ground

panel: 8 3/4 by 12 1/2 in.; 22.2 by 31.8 cm.

framed: 11 1/2 by 15 in.; 29.2 by 38.1 cm.

Part of a polyptych for the St. Anthony Abbot chapel of San Benedetto fuori della Porta Pinti, Florence, commissioned by Domenico di Francesco Corsi, 1404;

Removed to Santa Maria degli Angeli, Florence, 1529, until 19th century;

Private collection;

By whom anonymously sold, New York, Sotheby's, 12 January 1995, lot 5;

Private collection;

By whom anonymously sold, New York, Sotheby's, 25 January 2001, lot 2;

With Derek Johns, London;

From whom acquired by Richard L. Feigen, 2005.

R.F. Lacher, in Gesichten auf Gold: Bildererzählungen in der frühen italienischen Malerei, exhibition catalogue, Berlin 2005, pp. 151-155, cat. no. 6, reproduced in color p. 153;
L. Kanter and J. Marciari, Italian Paintings from the Richard L. Feigen Collection, New Haven 2010, pp. 36-38, cat. no. 11, reproduced in color p. 37.