Taddeo di Bartolo

Saint Simon; Saint Francis of Assisi

Auction Closed

January 28, 04:44 PM GMT

Estimate

400,000 - 600,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished Private Collection

Taddeo di Bartolo

Siena 1362/3 (?) - after 1422

Saint Simon;

Saint Francis of Assisi

a pair, both tempera on panel, gold ground

St. Simon, painted surface: 39 1/2 by 15 in.; 100.3 by 38.1 cm.

St. Francis, painted surface: 40 by 16 in.; 101.6 by 40.6 cm.

each, engaged frame: 43 1/2 by 17 in.; 110.5 by 43.2 cm.

Commissioned for the Campigli-Sardi Chapel, San Francesco, Pisa, 1390, and until 1846;
With Moretti Fine Art;
From whom acquired, 2008.

G. Freuler, Dagli eredi di Giotto al primo Cinquecento, Florence 2007, pp. 44-49, reproduced in color p. 45, reconstruction p. 47, details p. 49;

M. Boskovits, Maestri senesi e toscani nel Lindenau-Museum di Altenburg, Siena 2008, p. 115, reproduced p. 114, fig. 18a;

G. E. Solberg, "Taddeo di Bartolo's Altarpiece at S. Francesco in Pisa: new discoveries and a reconstruction," The Burlington Magazine 152, no. 1284 (March 2010): pp. 144-151, reproduced in color. 145, figs. 2-3.

ENGRAVED (St. Francis):

Don Niccolo Catalano, in Fiume del Terrestre Paradiso... 1652