Mariotto di Nardo (active Florence 1394-1424)

Saints Stephen and Bartholomew

Details

Mariotto di Nardo (active Florence 1394-1424)
Saints Stephen and Bartholomew
on gold ground panel - a fragment from an altarpiece
28 x 14 in. (72.5 x 36.9 cm.)

Provenance

William Young Ottley (according to an old Christie's sale catalogue entry on the reverse of the frame, recording the picture as 'F. Lippi: St. Matthias and St. Barbara').
Sir George Leon, and by inheritance to the vendor.

Lot Essay

We are grateful to Professor Mikls Boskovits for the attribution; Professor Boskovits notes that this picture is a companion piece to another fragment from the same altarpiece, representing Saints Nicholas and Reparata (or Lucy?), sold at Sotheby's, London, 1 March 1930, lot 55 (see M. Boskovits, Pittura Fiorentina alla vigilia del Rinascimento, Florence, 1975, fig. 486).

For the collector and dealer William Young Ottley, see note to lot 48.

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