Details
MICHELE GIAMBONO* (documented 1420-1462)
The Madonna and Child enthroned
tempera on panel laid down on panel--arched top
37 x 23¼in. (94 x 59cm.)
Provenance
with Count René Trotti, Paris, before 1942
Private collection, Milan, 1955-56
Antonio Morassi, Milan
J. Marchig, Switzerland
possibly, Art Market, Switzerland, 1972
Anon. sale, Christie's, London, Dec. 8, 1972, lot 68, where purchased by the museum for #20,000
Literature
G. Firestone, The Sleeping Christ Child in Italian Renaissance Representations of the Madonna, Marsyas, 2, 1942, p. 44, fig. 2
R. Pallucchini, La pittura veneta del Quattrocento, 1955/56, p. 95
B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Venetian School, I, 1957, p. 83, pl. 43
K. Christiansen, La pittura a Venezia e in Veneto nel primo Quattrocento in La Pittura in Italia: Il Quattrocento, F. Zeri, ed., 1, 1986, 1987, pp. 122, 130, 135
Exhibited
London, Matthiesen Gallery, Exhibition of Venetian Paintings and Drawings Held in Aid of Lord Baldwin's Fund for Refugees, Feb. 23-April 6, 1939, no. 3
