Madonna and Child with Saint John the Baptist, in a landscape

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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).

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Lot Essay

Arcangelo di Jacopo del Sellaio was the son of Jacopo del Sellaio, a Florentine painter and contemporary of Fra Filippo Lippi and Sandro Botticelli. Arcangelo trained in his father’s studio and inherited it upon his death, accounting for the closeness in the two artists’ style. Arcangelo's works were previously given to the Master of the Miller Tondo. For a full discussion of the identification of the Master of the Miller Tondo as Arcangelo, see N. Pons, ‘Arcangelo di Jacopo del Sellaio’, Arte Cristiana, LXXXIV, September-October 1996, pp. 374-388.

We are grateful to Christopher Daly who endorses the attribution on the basis of photographs and dates the painting to c. 1500-05.

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