Taddeo di Bartolo* (1363-1422)

Saints Catherine of Alexandria, Lawrence, Dominic and Julian--predella panels

Details

Taddeo di Bartolo* (1363-1422)
Bartolo, T.
Saints Catherine of Alexandria, Lawrence, Dominic and Julian--predella panels
tempera and gold ground on panel
overall size: 13 x 28in. (33 x 71cm.), individual panels: 10in. x 5in. (26 x 14cm.)
Four (4)

Provenance

Dawson Turner; Christie's, London, May 14, 1852, lots 1-2, (2gns. each to Mr. Anthony).
Mrs. Simon Guggenheim, by whom given to the museum in 1959.

Literature

S. Symeonides, Taddeo di Bartolo, Accademia Senese degli Intronati, Monographie d'arte Sienese, VII, 1965, pl. 10b.
B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Central Italian and North Italian Schools, I, 1968 ed., p. 420, as 'from Grenoble polyptych of 1395?'.
J. Rowlands, in The Burlington Magazine, CX, 1968, p. 529 (review of Sibilla Symeonides's monograph).
B. Fredericksen and F. Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, 1972, p. 194.
G.E. Solberg, Taddeo di Bartolo: His Life and Work, Ph.D. diss., New York University, 1991, pp. 98, 128, 375-7, 430, fig. 29.

Lot Essay

The present panels seem to date from the first period of the artist's production, as described by Sibilla Symeonides (op. cit.) and to have once formed parts of the predella belonging to the Grenoble altarpiece of 1395. Though Symeonides expressed some reservations about the quality of these small panels, Gail Solberg in her dissertation (op. cit.) reiterates the fact that Zeri and Fredericksen list them as autograph (op. cit.) while expressing her belief that while the entire Grenoble altarpiece is autograph, the Denver panels may be by a good assistant of Taddeo di Bartolo.

We are grateful to Mr. Everett Fahy who has examined these panels at first hand and believes them to be by Taddeo di Bartolo.

In a Picchetto frame.