The Madonna and Child with two Angels

Details

Filippino Lippi* (1457-1504) and Workshop
The Madonna and Child with two Angels
inscribed 'AVE.GRA.PLEN.'
tempera on panel--a tondo
37in. diam. (94cm.)

Provenance

Colonel Alcock, 1882, and by descent to Miss J.E. Alcock, Portman Square, London; (+) sale, Christie's, London, Nov. 25, 1899, lot 21 as 'D. Ghirlandajo' (145gns. to Agnews).
with Charles Sedelmeyer, Paris, 1900 as Domenico Ghirlandajo.
Henri Heugel, Paris.
Anon. Sale, Sotheby's, London, Dec. 14, 1977, lot 53 as Raffaellino del Garbo (£22,000).
with Colnaghi, London, 1978.

Literature

Catalogue of...100 Paintings by Old Masters...[in] the Sedelmeyer Gallery, 1900, no. 58 as Domenico Ghirlandaio, illustrated.
S. Reinach, Répertoire de Peintures etc., 1907, II, p. 187 as Domenico Ghirlandajo.
R. van Marle, The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, 1931, XII, p. 372, as School of Filippino Lippi.
A. Scharf, Fillipino Lippi, 1935, p. 116, no. 123.
B.Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, Florentine School, 1963, I, p. 110.

Exhibited

London, Royal Academy, Winter Exhibition, 1882, no. 187 as Domenico Ghirlandaio.
Warsaw, Royal Castle, Opus Sacrum, April 10-Sept. 23, 1990, pp. 104-5, no. 17 (catalogue entry by Marcin Fabiánski).

Lot Essay

Patrizia Lambrano has examined the present painting first hand and dates it to the mid-1480s, placing it close to the Rucellai Madonna and Child with Saints Jerome and Dominic in the National Gallery, London (Inv. no. NG293). While Everett Fahy believes the present painting is a fully autograph work, Ms. Lambrano feels that there is some workshop assistance, and will publish it as such in her forthcoming monograph on the artist.