Niccolò di Pietro Gerini (Florence, active 1366?-d. c. 1414-5)
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Niccolò di Pietro Gerini (Florence, active 1366?-d. c. 1414-5)

The Annunciation: a panel from a predella

細節
Niccolò di Pietro Gerini (Florence, active 1366?-d. c. 1414-5)
The Annunciation: a panel from a predella
oil on gold ground panel
9¼ x 15¼ in. (23.5 x 38.8 cm.)
來源
T. Francillon, by 1823.
出版
M. Laclotte, 'N'en déplaise à Cicognara. La collection Francillon', Curiosité. Etudes d'histoire de l'art en honneur d'Antoine Schnapper, Paris, 1998, pp. 417-8, fig. 148 (the 1823 engraving).
刻印
For T. Francillon, Traduction abrégé de la storia pittorica della Italia de l'abbé Lanzi, Paris, 1823, p. 8, as Giotto.
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拍品專文

On the basis of a photograph Dr. Miklós Boskovits in 1998 proposed the attribution to Niccolò and a date not 'too far from 1390', pointing out that it had been engraved in 1823 (see above); on the basis of the engraving, he had earlier suggested that the picture must be close to Gerini (see Laclotte, loc. cit.). We are grateful to Professor Boskovits for this information, and to Everett Fahy for confirming the attribution after examining the picture in the original.

As Dr. Dillian Gordon agrees, the picture is evidently from the same predella as the Nativity formerly at Ochtertyre, now on loan from a private collection to the National Gallery, London.

Timothée Francillon was among the earlier French collectors to take an interest in early Italian pictures: his collection was sold in 1828, the year before he died.