Lot Essay
The image of the Saint depends on the figure of Saint Agnes in Duccio's Maestà.
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A female martyr: a panel from a polyptych
Details
Segna di Bonaventura (active Siena from c. 1298 (?)-d. before 1331) and Studio (?)
A female martyr: a panel from a polyptych
on gold ground panel, arched top, with part of the integral frame
27 x 16 in. (68.7 x 40.6 cm.)
A female martyr: a panel from a polyptych
on gold ground panel, arched top, with part of the integral frame
27 x 16 in. (68.7 x 40.6 cm.)
Provenance
Acquired in Italy in circa 1872 by the painter, Charles Loyeux.
Anon. Sale, Drouot Richelieur, Paris, 2 December 1994, lot 113, as 'Segna di Bonaventura and studio'.
Anon. Sale, Drouot Richelieur, Paris, 2 December 1994, lot 113, as 'Segna di Bonaventura and studio'.
Literature
M. Heng, 'Une oeuvre inédite du peintre siennoise Segna di Bonaventura', Mélanges offerts au Professeur Marcel Durliat, Toulouse, 1992, pp. 503-14.
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