Details
ARCANGELO DI JACOPO DEL SELLAIO (FLORENCE C. 1477⁄8-1530)
Madonna and Child with Saint John the Baptist, in a landscape
tempera and oil on panel, arched, in an integral frame
48 ¼ x 27 ¾ in. (122.5 x 70.5 cm.)
inscribed 'AVE MARIA · GRATIA PLENA DOMINVS · TEQVM · (lower centre)
Provenance
Thomas Brocklebank (1842-1919), Wateringbury Place, Kent, and by descent to his widow,
Mary Brocklebank, née Royds (1849-1937) [Sold by Order of the Executors of Thomas Brocklebank, Esq., deceased, late of Wateringbury Place, Kent, on the death of Mrs. Brocklebank]; (†), Christie's, London, 8 July 1938, lot 45, as 'Jacopo del Sellaio' (58 gns. to Mackey).
with Galerie Hörhammer, Helsinki, February 1939, as 'Jacopo del Sellaio'.
B.G. Zachariassen, Munksnäs, Finland, by 1944.
Anonymous sale [The Property of a Lady]; Christie's, New York, 16 October 1997, lot 27, as 'The Master of the Miller Tondo (Arcangelo di Jacopo del Sellaio), late 15th Century'.
with Fabrizio Moretti, Florence, 1999.
Literature
O. Sirén, 'Anteckningar och attributioner på utställningen av italiensk konst i Nationalmuseum 1944', Konsthistorisk Tidskrift, XIV, June 1945, pp. 69 and 71, fig. 19.
N. Pons, Una bottega fiorentina di pittura nella seconda metà del XV secolo: Jacopo del Sellaio e compagni, PhD dissertation, Università degli studi di Roma 'La Sapienza', 1992, p. 195, fig. 194.
Exhibited
Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, Italienska tavlor, teckningar och skulpturer, ur svenska och finska samlingar, 3 March-14 April 1944, no. 34, as 'Jacopo del Sellaio' (lent by B.G. Zachariassen).
Florence, Moretti Gallery, Da Bernardo Daddi a Giorgio Vasari, September 1999, unpaginated, with catalogue entry by A.G. de Marchi.