LOT DETAILS

Materials:

tempera and gold on panel

Size Notes:

137 x 75 cm.

Description:

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Exhibited:

Hamburg, Kunsthalle, Die Sammlung Wedells, 1935.Paris, Muse Jacquemart-Andr, La Collection Alana: Chefs-d'uvres de la peinture italienne, 13 September-20 January 2020, no. 11 (entry by C.B. Strehkle).

Literature:

V. Dirksen, 'Die Sammlung Wedells in Hamburg', Kunstchronik und Kunstmarkt, XXXIII, 1922, p. 757, as 'Circle of Bernardo Daddi'. A. Rohde, 'Die Galerie Wedells in Hamburg', Der Cicerone, XIV, no. 12, 1922, p. 506. B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, Oxford, 1932, p. 166. R. Van Marle, 'La Collezione del Haus Wedells di Amburgo', Dedalo, XIII, 1933, pp. 244-246, illustrated. R. Offner, A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting, III, IV, Bernardo Daddi, His Shop and Following, New York, 1934, pp. 121-122, 133, pls. XLVIII, XLVIII1, XLVIII2, XLVIII3, as 'by a close follower of Daddi'. B. Berenson, Pitture italiane del rinascimento, Milan, 1936, p. 142. D.C. Shorr, The Christ Child in devotional images in Italy during the XIV century, New York, 1954, pp. 183-184, illustrated, as 'by a follower of Daddi'. B. Berenson, Italian pictures of the Renaissance: Florentine School, I, London and New York, 1963, p. 54. B. Klesse, Seidenstoffe in der italienischen Malerei des 14. Jahrhunderts, Bern, 1967, p. 192, no. 51d, as 'by a follower of Daddi'. M. Boskovits, in R. Offner, A critical and historical corpus of Florentine painting, III, IX, The painters of the miniaturist tendency, Florence, 1984, p. 32, note 98. R. Offner, A critical and historical corpus of Florentine painting, III, III, The works of Bernardo Daddi (revised ed. by M. Boskovits), Florence, 1989, pp. 46, 85, note 56, as 'by a close follower of Daddi'. M. Boskovits, The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection: Early Italian Painting, 1290-1470, London, 1990, p. 64, note 1. R. Offner, A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting, III, IV, Bernardo Daddi, His Shop and Following (revised ed. by M. Boskovits), Florence, 1991, pp. 23, 363-364, pls. XLVIII, XLVIII (recording Klara Steinweg's manuscript opinion that painting, following its cleaning, is by Daddi himself), p. 389 (with Offner's attribution to the close following of Daddi), pp. 508, 511 (attributed by Boskovits to Daddi himself).

Provenance:

Purchased, probably in Paris, by Siegfried Wedells (1848-1919), Hamburg, by whom bequeathed in 1921 to, Hamburg, Kunsthalle, by whom sold, circa 1960.with Wildenstein & Co., New York.Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 5 July 2011, lot 58, where acquired by the present owner.