Lot Essay
We are grateful to Mr. Everett Fahy for confirming the attribution
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JACOPO DEL CASENTINO* (active 1339-died between 1349/58)
A Portable Tabernacle: Central panel: The Madonna and Child enthroned with a Royal Female Saint, a Bishop Saint, Saints John the Baptist, Peter and adoring Angels; The wings: The Nativity; and the Crucifixion, with The Annunciation above
tempera on gold ground panel
center: 16 x 8½in. (40.6 x 21.6cm.)
wings: 16 x 5½in. (40.6 x 14cm.)
overall: 18¼ x 21¼in. (46.5 x 53.5cm.)
A Portable Tabernacle: Central panel: The Madonna and Child enthroned with a Royal Female Saint, a Bishop Saint, Saints John the Baptist, Peter and adoring Angels; The wings: The Nativity; and the Crucifixion, with The Annunciation above
tempera on gold ground panel
center: 16 x 8½in. (40.6 x 21.6cm.)
wings: 16 x 5½in. (40.6 x 14cm.)
overall: 18¼ x 21¼in. (46.5 x 53.5cm.)
Provenance
Said to have come from the Russian Imperial Collection
with Julius Böhler, Vienna, 1911
with Galerie St. Lucas, Vienna; from whom
purchased by Mr. Oscar Bondy, Vienna, before 1924; his sale, Kende Galleries Inc., New York, March 3, 1949, lot 85
Mr. Carel Goldschmidt, Mount Kisco, N.Y., and by descent
with Julius Böhler, Vienna, 1911
with Galerie St. Lucas, Vienna; from whom
purchased by Mr. Oscar Bondy, Vienna, before 1924; his sale, Kende Galleries Inc., New York, March 3, 1949, lot 85
Mr. Carel Goldschmidt, Mount Kisco, N.Y., and by descent
Literature
W. Suida, Meisterwerke italienischer Malerie, I. Ein Triptychon des Jacopo del Casentino, Belvedere, III, 1923, pp. 24-5, 27-8
R. Offner. Jacopo del Casentino, integrazione della sua opera, Bollettino d'Arte, III, 1923/4, pp. 264, 268, 270, 282
R. van Marle, The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, III, 1924, p. 654 as a 'painter...who shows a close connection to Jacopo del Casentino with whom, however, he cannot be identified.'
M. Salmi, Nuove attribuzioni a Jacopo di Casentino, Belvedere, V, 1924, p. 119
W. Stechow, Italienische Bilder des XIV und XV. Jahrhunderts in der Gemäldesammlung der Universität Göttingen, in Zeitschr. Bild. Kunst., LVIII, 1924-5, pp. 209-10
R. van Marle, The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, V, 1925, p. 472
G. de Térey, Jacopo del Casentino's Madonna enthroned with Saints and Angels, The Burlington Magazine, XLVII, 1925, p.252
W. Stechow, Katalog der Gemäldesammlung der Universität Göttingen, 1926, p.10
R. Offner, Studies in Florentine Painting. The 14th Century, 1927, p. 33
B.C. Kreplin, Landini Jacopo, gen. Jacopo del Casentino. Thieme-Becker, XXII, 1928, p. 297
M. Salmi, Berichte über die Sitzungen des Institutes im Jahre 1928. II. Sitzung - 28 Februar 1928. 'Jacopo del Casentino, miniatore e pittore', Mitteilungen K.I.F. III, 1929, p. 146
M. Salmi, Review of Richard Offner, Studies in Florentine Painting, Rive Arte, IX, 1929, p. 137
W. Suida, Ein Triptychon des Jacopo del Casentino, Belvedere, VIII, 1929, p. 329
B. Berenson, Italian Painters of the Renaissance: Florentine School, I, 1932, p. 273; ibid., 1936, p. 234, and 1963, p. 102, pl. 110
R. Offner, A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting. The Fourteenth Century, III/V, 1947, pp. 146 and 153; ibid., ed. M. Boskovits, III/II, 1987, pp. 502-3, illustrated
M. Salmi, Jacopo del Casentino, Atti Acc. Petrarca, XXXV, 1949/51, p. 25
M.G. Albertini-Ottolenghi, Catalogue of the Pinacoteca Malaspina, Pavia, 1981, p. 199
R. Offner. Jacopo del Casentino, integrazione della sua opera, Bollettino d'Arte, III, 1923/4, pp. 264, 268, 270, 282
R. van Marle, The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, III, 1924, p. 654 as a 'painter...who shows a close connection to Jacopo del Casentino with whom, however, he cannot be identified.'
M. Salmi, Nuove attribuzioni a Jacopo di Casentino, Belvedere, V, 1924, p. 119
W. Stechow, Italienische Bilder des XIV und XV. Jahrhunderts in der Gemäldesammlung der Universität Göttingen, in Zeitschr. Bild. Kunst., LVIII, 1924-5, pp. 209-10
R. van Marle, The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, V, 1925, p. 472
G. de Térey, Jacopo del Casentino's Madonna enthroned with Saints and Angels, The Burlington Magazine, XLVII, 1925, p.252
W. Stechow, Katalog der Gemäldesammlung der Universität Göttingen, 1926, p.10
R. Offner, Studies in Florentine Painting. The 14th Century, 1927, p. 33
B.C. Kreplin, Landini Jacopo, gen. Jacopo del Casentino. Thieme-Becker, XXII, 1928, p. 297
M. Salmi, Berichte über die Sitzungen des Institutes im Jahre 1928. II. Sitzung - 28 Februar 1928. 'Jacopo del Casentino, miniatore e pittore', Mitteilungen K.I.F. III, 1929, p. 146
M. Salmi, Review of Richard Offner, Studies in Florentine Painting, Rive Arte, IX, 1929, p. 137
W. Suida, Ein Triptychon des Jacopo del Casentino, Belvedere, VIII, 1929, p. 329
B. Berenson, Italian Painters of the Renaissance: Florentine School, I, 1932, p. 273; ibid., 1936, p. 234, and 1963, p. 102, pl. 110
R. Offner, A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting. The Fourteenth Century, III/V, 1947, pp. 146 and 153; ibid., ed. M. Boskovits, III/II, 1987, pp. 502-3, illustrated
M. Salmi, Jacopo del Casentino, Atti Acc. Petrarca, XXXV, 1949/51, p. 25
M.G. Albertini-Ottolenghi, Catalogue of the Pinacoteca Malaspina, Pavia, 1981, p. 199
Exhibited
Vienna, Zweite Ausstellung des Vereins der Museumsfreunde in Wien. Meisterwerke italienischer Renaissancekunst aus Privatbesitz, 1924, p. 5, no. 19 (on loan from Oscar Bondy)