The Master of the Argonauts, now identified as the young Jacopo del Sellaio

With Sedelmeyer, February 1925; 

With Galerie W. Bornheim, Munich, by 1954;

With Wildenstein, New York, by March 1957;

Prof. Dr. Robert Ellscheid, Cologne;

Anonymous sale (‘Property including paintings and drawings from a Rhenish private collection’), Cologne, Lempertz, 6 December 1997, lot 1184, for 480,000 DM;

Where acquired by the present collector.

B. Berenson, ‘Quadri senza casa, Il Quattrocento fiorentino. III’, Dedalo, XII, 1932, pp. 819–20, reproduced on p. 823 (as the Master of San Miniato);

Advertisement by Galerie W. Bornheim in Die Welkunst, 24, no. 23, 1 December 1954, reproduced p. 14 (as an early work by Botticelli);

B. Berenson, Homeless Paintings of the Renaissance, London 1969, p. 185, reproduced fig. 334 (as the Master of San Miniato; whereabouts unknown);

M. Boskovits, Toskanishe Frühreraissance – Tafelbilder, Budapest 1969, unpaginated, under no. 32 (as Fra Diamante [?]);

F. Zeri and E.E. Gardner, Italian Paintings, A Catalogue of the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Florentine School, London 1971, p. 116 (as the Master of San Miniato);

G. Dalli Regoli (ed.), Il Maestro di San Miniato. Lo stato degli studi, i problemi, le risposte della filologia, Pisa 1988, p. 97, reproduced fig. 59, and p. 112, n. 28 (as unknown Florentine artist);

E. Fahy, ‘The Argonaut Master’, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, December 1989, pp. 296 and 299, n. 50 (as the Argonaut Master);

A. De Marchi, ‘Il "Maestro dall'occhio vispo": curiosità insaziabile, generosità e passione nel metodo di un conoscitore anomalo’, in E. Fahy, Studi sulla pittura toscana del Rinascimento, A. De Marchi and E. Sambo (eds), Bologna 2020, vol. I, p. XIX (as the young Jacopo del Sellaio);

E. Fahy, ‘The Argonaut Master’, in Studi sulla pittura toscana del Rinascimento, A. De Marchi and E. Sambo (eds), Bologna 2020, vol. I, p. 201, n. 54 (as the Argonaut Master).