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Property from a Family Collection

Antonio Rosso da Cadore

Madonna and Child with Saints Francis of Assisi, John the Baptist, Anthony Abbot, and Mary Magdalene

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May 22, 04:37 PM GMT

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Property from a Family Collection

Antonio Rosso da Cadore

documented in the Veneto 1472 - 1525

Madonna and Child with Saints Francis of Assisi, John the Baptist, Anthony Abbot, and Mary Magdalene


signed, dated, and inscribed lower center on stone plinth: Questa opera a fato far Ser livan q[uondam] m[agister] / greguol da Liba[n] abita[n]te al sol da Mel p[er] / sua devot[i]one 1494. Ant[onio] Roso de Cadore depe[n]se

oil on panel

panel: 30 ⅜ by 49 ⅞ in.; 77.2 by 126.7 cm

framed: 48 ½ by 66 ⅛ in.; 123.2 by 168.0 cm

Commissioned for the Church of Libano, near Belluno, 1494;

Giovanni Battista Cadorin, Venice, by 1828;

Thence by descent to his heirs, San Fior di Conegliano;

Probably from whom acquired by Charles Fairfax Murray, Florence;

Private collection, Milan, by 1926 and until at least 1927;

Eugenio Ventura, Florence;

His sale, Milan, Galleria Scopinich, 6 April 1932, lot 58;

With Bardi, Rome, by 1947;

Miani collection, São Paolo, Brazil, by 1956;

Thence by descent to the present collector.

G. Cadorin, in Elogio di Osvaldo Varetoni, Piovano di Candide, Venice 1828, pp. 40-41;

A. Ronzon, Il Cadore, Venice 1877, p. 230;

J.A. Crowe and G.B. Cavalcaselle, A History of Painting in North Italy, T. Borenius (ed.), London 1912, vol. III, pp. 61-62 note 2, cat. no. 3;

S. De Kunert, "Il pittore Antonio Rosso di Cadore," in Rivista mensile della città di Venezia 5 (1926), p. 410;

S. De Kunert, "Aggiunta alla nota sul pittore Antonio Rosso di Cadore," in Rivista mensile della città di Venezia 6 (1927), pp. 27-29, reproduced;

S. De Kunert, "Nuova aggiunta alle note su Antonio Rosso," in Archivio storico di Belluno Feltre e Cadore 18 (1931), p. 262;

F. Chiarelli, "Un quadro di Antonio Rosso," in Archivio storico di Belluno Feltre e Cadore 122 (1953), p. 22;

R. D'Ambros, "Il pittore Antonio Rosso di Cadore," in Archivio storico di Belluno Feltre e Cadore 12 (1955), p. 98;

L. Coletti, "Su Antonio Rosso da Cadore e i pittori Serravallesi," in Venezia e l'Europa, Atti del XVIII congresso internazionale di storia dell'arte, Venice 1956, pp. 201-202;

B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, Venetian School, 1957, vol. I, p. 151, reproduced fig. 327;

G. Dalla Vestra, "La pittura nel Belluno prima dei Vecellio," Ph.D. diss., University of Padua 1962-1963, p. 60;

G. Dalla Vestra, I pittori bellunesi prima dei Vecellio, Verona 1975, p. 242, cat. no. 92, reproduced fig. 80.

Executed in 1494 by the Friulian artist Antonio Rosso di Cadore, this altarpiece was commissioned by Ser Gregorio da Liban of Sol da Mer for the Church of Libano, near Belluno, as recorded in the inscription at the lower center. Saint John the Baptist, the church’s patron, is given the place of honor to the Madonna’s right, affirming the work’s original devotional context. A follower of the Vivarini, Antonio Rosso here blends the structured clarity of the Paduan tradition with the chromatic warmth of the Venetian school.