NICCOLÒ DI PIETRO* (active 1394-1430)

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NICCOLÒ DI PIETRO* (active 1394-1430)

Saint Catherine of Alexandria; and A Pilgrim Saint

tempera on gold ground panel, the first with an applied backing board--unframed
20 1/8 x 8 7/8in. (51.2 x 22.5cm.) Two (2)

Provenance

Riccardi Collection, Assisi

Literature

M. Boskovits, The Martello Collection, 1985, pp. 122-5, no. 35, both illustrated in color
M. Laclotte and E. Mognetti, Avignon, musée du Petit Palais: Peinture italienne, 1987, p. 244
A. De Marchi, Per un riesame della pittura tardogotica a Venezia: Niccolò di Pietro e il suo contesto adriatico, Bollettino d'Arte, LXXII 1987, p. 42

Lot Essay

A Saint Francis of Assisi and a Saint Louis of Toulouse, of identical size and evidently from the same polyptych, are in the Musée du Petit Palais, Avignon (illustrated in Boskovits and Laclotte and Mognetti, loc. cit.)