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FRANCESCO DI VANNUCCIO (ACTIVE SIENA, C. 1356-1389)

Saint Anthony Abbot

Details
FRANCESCO DI VANNUCCIO (ACTIVE SIENA, C. 1356-1389)
Saint Anthony Abbot
tempera and gold ground on panel, a fragment
15 ¹/₄ x 13 in. (38.7 x 33 cm.)
Provenance
(Possibly) commissioned from the artist as part of a larger altarpiece by the Compagnia di Sant’Antonio dell’Abate, Siena, in 1388.
with Martin Porkay, Munich, 1954, as either Bartolo di Fredi or Taddeo di Bartolo.
Harald Graf von Ingenheim (1892-1978), Starnberg, by 1955.
Anonymous sale [The Property of a Nobleman]; Sotheby’s, London, 29 April 2015, lot 305, as Bartolo di Fredi, where acquired by the present owner.
Literature
(Possibly) Libro d’entrata e uscita della Compagna di S. Antonio, Biblioteca Pubblica di Siena, folio 29.
G. Milanesi, Documenti per la storia dell’arte senese, I, Siena, 1854, p. 35, under no. 1.
F. Zeri, ‘Un frammento di Francesco di Vannuccio,’ Diari di lavoro, I, 1971, pp. 25-27, fig. 17.
S. Padovani, in Mostra di opere d’arte restaurate nelle province di Siena e Grosseto, II-1981, exhibition catalogue, Siena, 1981, pp. 54-56, pl. III.
C.B. Strehlke, Italian Paintings, 1250-1450, in the John G. Johnson Collection and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 2004, p. 144.

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