Property from the Collection of Sir Peter Jonas
Giovanni Battista Bertucci il Vecchio
Saint Margaret
Lot Closed
December 8, 02:11 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Collection of Sir Peter Jonas
Giovanni Battista Bertucci il Vecchio
active in Faenza circa 1495 - 1516
Saint Margaret
oil on pine panel
unframed: 81.7 x 50.8 cm.; 32¼ x 20 in.
framed: 93.5 x 62.9 cm.; 36⅞ x 24¾ in.
By whom anonymously sold, Berlin, Graupe, 27–29 May 1935, lot 11 (as Lorenzo Costa);
Private collection, Munich;
Whence sold, Berlin, Hans W. Lange, 16–17 April 1943, lot 15;
Where acquired by Heinrich Hoffmann (1885–1957), Munich and Gufflam;
Recovered by the Allied Forces and transferred to the Central Collecting Point, Munich (Mü-no. 27893), 4 May 1946;
Transferred by the Allied Forces to the Bavarian Prime Minister, Munich, 25 April 1949;
Transferred from the Bavarian Prime Minister to the Administration of Cultural Assets, Foreign Ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany, Munich, 22 February 1952;
Bavarian State Painting Collection, Munich (Assigned from the Bavarian Authority for Asset management and compensation to the Free State of Bavaria), 11 March 1959;
Purchased from the Bavarian State by Henriette Hoffmann von Schirach (1913–1992), 7 August 1963;
Anonymous sale, Lucerne, Galerie Fischer, 3–7 December 1963, lot 1109 (as Lorenzo Costa);
Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 18 April 2000, lot 287 (as follower of Lorenzo Costa);
Where acquired by Sir Peter Jonas (1946–2020).
Everett Fahy suggested this work to be by Giovanni Battista Bertucci il Vecchio, called Giovanni Battista da Faenza, on the basis of photographs, as announced in a saleroom notice when the painting was offered at Sotheby's, 18 April 2000, lot 287.
The painting was consigned to the Paul Graupe auction in May 1935 by the Diamanten-Regie, a German colonial company that was responsible for sourcing and selling diamonds from the former German colony in Southwest Africa and from circa 1933 also had an art department. Through the archival files of the Diamanten-Regie at the Bundesarchiv in Berlin (Barch, R 8127/1017) and the files relating to expertises by the art historian Dr. Hermann Voss (1884–1969) at the Central Archive in Berlin (I/GG 295 I d 6, Bd. 23, I/GG 349 o.Az., Bd. 1) no earlier provenance could be established for this painting.
This painting is not recorded on any of the consulted lists and databases of losses, including the Art Loss Register.
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