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Property from an Important Collection

The Master of the Fiesole Epiphany

The Lamentation with Saints Francis, Anthony of Padua, a Bishop Saint, Catherine of Alexandria and Sebastian

Auction Closed

May 25, 03:13 PM GMT

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important Collection

The Master of the Fiesole Epiphany

active in Florence circa 1500

The Lamentation with Saints Francis, Anthony of Padua, a Bishop Saint, Catherine of Alexandria and Sebastian


tempera on panel

panel: 34 by 33⅞ in.; 86.5 by 86 cm.

framed: 50¾ by 45½ in.; 128.9 by 115.6 cm.

Baron Lazzaroni, Paris;

With Joseph Duveen, New York;

With John Levy Galleries, New York, by 1930;

Oscar. B. Cintas, New York;

His sale, New York, Parke-Bernet, 26 April 1963, lot 6 (as Cosimo Rosselli);

There acquired by Acquavella Galleries, New York;

From whom acquired by the family of the current owners.

B. Berenson, Italian Paintings of the Renaissance, 1932, p. 492; (as by Cosimo Rosselli);

Connoisseur, August 1963, p. 263, reproduced fig. 8 (as Rosselli);

B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Florentine School, London 1963, vol. 1, p. 190 (as an early Cosimo Rosselli);

E. Fahy, Some Followers of Domenico Ghirlandaio, Phd Diss., Harvard University, 1968, p. 170 (as by the Master of the Fiesole Epiphany);

N. Pons, “Una bottega fiorentina di pittura nella seconda metà del XV secolo: Jacopo del Sellaio e compagni,” Phd Diss., Università degli studi di Roma “La Sapienza”-Università degli studi di Firenze. Florence 1992, p. 66, reproduced plate 135 (as Master of the Fiesole Epiphany);

E. Fahy, “The Este Predella Panels and other works by the Master of the Fiesole Epiphany,” in Nuovi Studi, 2001/2002, p. 24 (as by the Master of the Fiesole Epiphany).

Caracas, Venezuela, Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas, Exposicion Grandes Maestros, 5 November - 17 December 1967 (as by Cosimo Rosselli).