Lot 161
Lot 161
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Sebastiano di Bartolo Mainardi (San Gimignano 1466-1513 ?Florence)

The Madonna and Saint Joseph adoring the Christ Child

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GBP 50,000 - GBP 80,000
Closed: 9 Dec 2022
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Sebastiano di Bartolo Mainardi (San Gimignano 1466-1513 ?Florence)

The Madonna and Saint Joseph adoring the Christ Child

Closed: 9 Dec 2022
Closed: 9 Dec 2022
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Sebastiano di Bartolo Mainardi (San Gimignano 1466-1513 ?Florence)
The Madonna and Saint Joseph adoring the Christ Child
tempera on panel, tondo
3112 in. (80 cm.) diam.
Provenance
Robert Langton Douglas, London (according to a card in the Frick Art Reference Library).
Sir Theodore C. Hope (1831-1915), London; his sale (†), Christie's, London, 13 June 1927, lot 156, as 'Filippo Lippi'.
Édouard Jonas (1883-1961), New York, by 1933.
with F. Kleinburger, New York, by whom (anonymously) sold; Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 15 April 1953, lot 34, when acquired by the following,
Allan Gordon.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 17 January 1992, lot 9, when acquired by the following,
with Giovanni Sarti Antiques, London.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 27 January 2006, lot 281, when acquired by the present owner.
Literature
P.E. Küppers, 'Die italienischen Gemälde des Kestner-Museums zu Hanover', Monatshefte für Kunstwissenschaft, IX, April 1916, p. 129.
G. de Francovich, 'Sebastiano Mainardi', Conache d'arte, May-June 1927, pp. 169-93 and 256-70.
The Burlington Magazine, LII, 1928, p. 303.
R. van Marle, The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, The Hague, 1931, XIII, pp. 196-7, as 'possibly by the workshop'.
E. Fahy, Some Followers of Domenico Ghirlandaio, New York, 1976, p. 219.
L. Venturini, 'Il Maestro del 1506. La tarda attività di Bastiano Mainardi', Studi di storia dell'arte, 1994-1995, p. 128, fig. 9.
Exhibited
Detroit, Michigan, Detroit Institute of Arts, Sixteenth Loan Exhibition of Old Masters, 1933, no. 30 (lent by Edouard Jonas).
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