Bernardino Fungai (Siena 1460-1516)

The Madonna and Child with angels playing instruments

Details

Bernardino Fungai (Siena 1460-1516)
The Madonna and Child with angels playing instruments
oil on poplar panel
31 5/8 x 26 5/8 in. (80.2 x 67.7 cm.) with an addition of ¾ in. (1.7 cm.) along the upper edge

Provenance

Collezione Simonetti, Rome (according to a stamp on the reverse).
Anonymous sale [The Property of a Gentleman]; Christie's, London, 5 February 1988, lot 74 (£16,500) when acquired by the present owner.

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Lot Essay

A Sienese artist, Bernardino Fungai was strong influenced by his Umbrian contemporaries, among whom were Pietro Perugino and Bernardino Pinturicchio. This picture is clearly by the same hand as the Madonna from the Perkins collection in the Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria (Sarti, Dipinti, Sculture e Oggetti dei Secoli XV-XVI, 1985, no. 66); formerly attributed to Bernardino di Mariotto, it is now regarded as a late work by Fungai. The attribution of the present picture to Fungai was widely endorsed by the late Federico Zeri.

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