Master Paintings and Drawings
Master Paintings and Drawings
Property from a Private Collection, Sold without Reserve
Studio of Bernardino Licinio
Madonna and child with Saint John the Baptist
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March 23, 02:16 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Collection, Sold without Reserve
Studio of Bernardino Licinio
Poscante circa 1490 - circa 1565
Madonna and child with Saint John the Baptist
oil on canvas
canvas: 43 by 36 ⅜ in.; 109.2 by 92.4 cm.
framed: 56 ⅝ by 49 ⅞ in.; 143.8 by 126.7
With Galerie Crespi, Milan;
By whom sold, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 4 June 1914, lot 51 (as Bernardino Licinio);
There probably acquired by María Antonia Netto de Mendilaharsu (1863-1949), Nice and Montevideo;
Thence by descent to the present owner.
By whom sold, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 4 June 1914, lot 51 (as Bernardino Licinio);
There probably acquired by María Antonia Netto de Mendilaharsu (1863-1949), Nice and Montevideo;
Thence by descent to the present owner.
A. Venturi, La Galleria Crespi in Milano, Milan 1900, p. 157, reproduced (as Bernardino Licinio);
A. Venturi, La galleria Sterbini in Roma: saggio illustrativo, Rome 1906, pp. 174, 177, under cat. no. 44, reproduced fig. 73 (as Bernardino Licinio);
J.A. Crowe and G.B. Cavalcaselle, A history of painting in north Italy, Venice, Padua, Vicenza, Verona, Ferrara, Milan, Friuli, Brescia from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century, London 1912, vol. III, p. 190 (as Bernardino Licinio);
A. Venturi, Storia dell'arte italiana: La Pitture de Cinquecento, vol. IX, part 3, Milan 1928, pp. 473, 475, reproduced fig. 311 (as Bernardino Licinio);
L. Vertova, "Bernardino Licinio: La vita," in I Pittori Bergamaschi dal XIII al XIX secolo: Il Cinquecento, vol. I, Bergamo 1975, pp. 380, 425, 461, reproduced fig. 2 (as Studio of Bernardino Licinio).
A. Venturi, La galleria Sterbini in Roma: saggio illustrativo, Rome 1906, pp. 174, 177, under cat. no. 44, reproduced fig. 73 (as Bernardino Licinio);
J.A. Crowe and G.B. Cavalcaselle, A history of painting in north Italy, Venice, Padua, Vicenza, Verona, Ferrara, Milan, Friuli, Brescia from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century, London 1912, vol. III, p. 190 (as Bernardino Licinio);
A. Venturi, Storia dell'arte italiana: La Pitture de Cinquecento, vol. IX, part 3, Milan 1928, pp. 473, 475, reproduced fig. 311 (as Bernardino Licinio);
L. Vertova, "Bernardino Licinio: La vita," in I Pittori Bergamaschi dal XIII al XIX secolo: Il Cinquecento, vol. I, Bergamo 1975, pp. 380, 425, 461, reproduced fig. 2 (as Studio of Bernardino Licinio).
This charming Madonna and Child with Saint John the Baptist is a studio variant of a painting by Bernardino Licinio in the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan.1
1. Vertova 1975, p. 461, reproduced fig. 1.