Property from a Private Swiss Collection
Circle of Mariotto di Nardo
The Virgin and Child flanked by Saint Mary Magdalene, Saint John the Baptist, Saint Catherine of Alexandria, Saint Paul and two angels playing music
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Description
Property from a Private Swiss Collection
Circle of Mariotto di Nardo
The Virgin and Child flanked by Saint Mary Magdalene, Saint John the Baptist, Saint Catherine of Alexandria, Saint Paul
and two angels playing music
tempera on panel, gold ground, with a shaped top
unframed: 83.8 x 46.6 cm.; 33 x 18⅜ in.
framed: 120.8 x 70.4 cm.; 47½ x 27¾ in.
A. de Labrouhe de Laborderie, Paris;
Their deceased sale, Amsterdam, Frederik Muller, 23 May 1922, lot 8 (as Florentine School, 15th century), for 2,800 Dutch guilders;
Probably anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 14 December 1923, lot 9 (as Florentine School), for £84, to Leger;
Art market, Lucerne;
Where acquired by the present owner in the early 1980s.
This composition is closely related to a painting of The Virgin and Child with a female martyr, Saint John the Baptist and two angels by Mariotto di Nardo (act. 1364–1424), which sold at Sotheby's, London, in 1987.1 Both pictures depict the Virgin and Child at centre, flanked by saints, as well as the motif of the music-making angel seen from behind, at lower right. A very similar angel appears in The Coronation of the Virgin with five music-making angels, dated 1408, in the Minneapolis Institute of Art.2
We are grateful to Dott. Andrea De Marchi for his assistance in the cataloguing of this lot.
1 Tempera on panel, gold ground, 83 x 48 cm.; London, Sotheby's, 8 July 1987, lot 24, for £50,000.
2 Accession no. 65.37; tempera on poplar panel, 152.7 x 68.6 cm.; https://collections.artsmia.org/art/1586/the-coronation-of-the-virgin-with-five-music-making-angels-mariotto-di-nardo.
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