The Master of the Ashmolean Predella (active in Florence during the second half of the 14th Century)

Saint Dorothy and Saint Anthony Abbot

Details

The Master of the Ashmolean Predella (active in Florence during the second half of the 14th Century)
Saint Dorothy and Saint Anthony Abbot
tempera on panel, cut down
16½ x 12¾ in. (41.9 x 32.4 cm.)

Provenance

with E. and A. Silberman Galleries, New York, as 'Andrea Bonaiuti', from where purchased by John B. Metzenberg, Chicago in 1952, and by descent to the present owner.

Exhibited

Hagerstown, Maryland, Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Saints in Art, December 1952, no. 7.

Lot Essay

We are grateful to Professor Miklòs Boskovits for suggesting this attribution from a transparency (written communication, 8 February 2006). He suggests that it is a late work by the artist datable to circa 1380.

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