Bernadino Licinio* (c.1490-c.1565)

A Sacra Conversazione with Saints Joseph, the Infant Saint John the Baptist and Anthony of Padua

Details

Bernadino Licinio* (c.1490-c.1565)
Licinio, B.
A Sacra Conversazione with Saints Joseph, the Infant Saint John the Baptist and Anthony of Padua
oil on canvas
43 x 60in. (110.5 x 153.6cm.), with an additional 2in. (5.7cm.) on the top edge and 1in. (3.8cm.) on the lower edge turned over the stretcher

Provenance

The Church of the Madonna di Loretto, the Island of Santa Clemente, the Venetian Lagoon.
Galerie Manfrin, Venice.
G. Frizzoni, Milan.
B. Crespi collection, Galleria Crespi; sale, Petit, Paris, June 4, 1914, lot 50 (3600 francs to Haberfeld).
T.G. de Wertheimer; Christie's, London, Dec. 21, 1956, lot 76 (130gns. to Crichton).
Davies Turner, London.

Literature

M. Boschini, Le Ricche minere della pittura Veneziana, 1674, p. 52. M. Boschini, Descrizione di tutte Le Publiche Pitture della Citta di Venezia e Isole Circonvicine, 1733, p. 468 '...So vedelsi poi un quadro colla Madonna, Sant. Gio;, Gioseppe, ed Antonio opera del Licino'.
Catalogo dei Quadri Esistenti nella Galleria Manfrin in Venezia, 1856, no. 348.
Pinacoteca Manfrin, Venice, 1872, p. 29, no. 138.
A. Venturi, La Galleria Crespi in Milano, 1900, p. 156 illustrated.
J.A. Crowe and G.B. Cavalcaselle, A History of Painting in North Italy, 1912, III, p. 187 under note 3.
A. Venturi, Storia dell'Arte Italiana, IX, part III, 1928, p. 481. B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, Venetian School, 1957, I, p. 97 and II, fig. 850.
L. Vertova, Bernardino Licinio, in I Pittori Bergamaschi, Il Cinquecento, I, 1915, p. 425, no. 71 and p. 462, fig. 1.

Lot Essay

Stylistically, the present painting may be compared to the Madonna and Child with Saint Francis, in the Uffizi, Florence, a painting dated to circa 1540 and similar in its composition, landscape background and figural types.