Master Paintings
Master Paintings
Property from a Distinguished Private Collection
Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia
St. Elizabeth of Hungary
Auction Closed
May 20, 03:42 PM GMT
Estimate
250,000 - 350,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Distinguished Private Collection
Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia
Siena circa 1399 - 1482
St. Elizabeth of Hungary
tempera on panel, gold ground
panel: 12 ⅜ by 4 ¾ in.; 31.5 by 12 cm.
framed: 14 ½ by 6 in.; 36.8 by 15.2 cm.
Possibly, commissioned as part of an altarpiece for the Fondi Chapel in San Francesco, Siena, 1435;
Private collection, Italy;
Anonymous sale ("Property of a Private Collection"), Milan, Sotheby's, 1 June 2005, lot 166 (along with a pair showing St. Clare of Assisi);
There acquired by Moretti Fine Art, Florence;
From whom acquired by the present collector, 2013.
Private collection, Italy;
Anonymous sale ("Property of a Private Collection"), Milan, Sotheby's, 1 June 2005, lot 166 (along with a pair showing St. Clare of Assisi);
There acquired by Moretti Fine Art, Florence;
From whom acquired by the present collector, 2013.
A. Tartuferi, in Da Allegretto Nuzi a Pietro Perugino, Moretti Fine Art, Florence 2005, pp. 96-103;
D. Sallay in Da Jacopo della Quercia a Donatello: le arti a Siena nel primo rinascimento, ed. M. Seidel, exhibition catalogue, Milan 2010, p. 214, under cat. no. C.14.
D. Sallay in Da Jacopo della Quercia a Donatello: le arti a Siena nel primo rinascimento, ed. M. Seidel, exhibition catalogue, Milan 2010, p. 214, under cat. no. C.14.