Master Paintings
Master Paintings
Property from a North American Private Collection
The Master of the Lazzaroni Madonna
The Madonna and Child surrounded by Saint John the Evangelist, Saint James the Greater, Saint Catherine of Alexandria and Saint John the Baptist
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May 20, 03:42 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
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Property from a North American Private Collection
The Master of the Lazzaroni Madonna
Active in Florence in the last third of the 14th Century
The Madonna and Child surrounded by Saint John the Evangelist, Saint James the Greater, Saint Catherine of Alexandria and Saint John the Baptist
oil on panel, gold ground, in an engaged frame
painted surface: 17 ½ by 7 ½ in.; 44.5 by 19 cm.
overall: 22 ¾ by 10 ¼ in.; 57.7 by 26 cm.
With Martinos Antiques, Athens;
There acquired by the present collector.
There acquired by the present collector.
Active in late trecento Florence, the Master of the Lazzaroni Madonna was a follower of Nardo di Cione and influenced by Cenni di Francesco and the late Andrea de Bonaiuti. His work was first isolated in print by Richard Offner (see A Legacy of Attributions, New York 1981, pp. 37-38) around a panel formerly in the Lazzaroni collection, Paris, and his oeuvre has been amplified by subsequent scholars (see, for example, M. Boskovits, La Pittura Fiorentina alla vigilia del Rinascimento, Florence 1975, pp. 239-240, footnote 169). The majority of the twenty to twenty-five works attributed to him are small portable triptychs, or fragments of dismembered triptychs.
Sonia Chiodo, to whom we are grateful, has independently confirmed the attribution of this work to the Master of the Lazzaroni Madonna based on photographs.
Sonia Chiodo, to whom we are grateful, has independently confirmed the attribution of this work to the Master of the Lazzaroni Madonna based on photographs.