Lot 129
129
Workshop of Domenico Ghirlandajo (1449-1494)
PROPERTY OF THE DENVER ART MUSEUM SOLD TO BENEFIT THE ACQUISITIONS FUND
Workshop of Domenico Ghirlandajo (1449-1494)

The Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist accompanied by Angels, a Landscape and a view of Venice beyond

Details
Workshop of Domenico Ghirlandajo (1449-1494)
The Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist accompanied by Angels, a Landscape and a view of Venice beyond
oil and tempera on panel--a tondo
32½in. diam. (82.5cm.)
Provenance
with Max Rothschild, London, 1927.
with John Levy Galleries, New York, 1929.
Leon Schinasi; (+) sale, Parke Bernet, New York, Nov. 3-4, 1944, lot 315 as Sebastiano di Bartolo Mainardi and accompanied by certificates from Dr. Tancred Borenius, Dr. Georg Gronau, Baron Detlev von Hadeln, Mr. Raymond Henniker-Heaton and Mr. William Suida ($4,000).
Mrs. Gerald Hughes by whom given to the Denver Art Museum in 1957.
Literature
The Burlington Magazine, Dec., 1927, illustrated (advertisement).
R. van Marle, La Collezione del Haus Wedells di Amburgo, Dedalo, XIII, April 1933, p. 251.
B.B. Fredericksen and F. Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, 1972, p. 117.
E. Fahy, Some Followers of Domenico Ghirlandajo, 1977, p. 216.
R. van Marle, The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, XIII, 1979, p. 201.
Exhibited
New York, Victor G. Art Galleries, Collection of Paintings by Old Masters of all Schools, 1912-3, no. 2 as Mainardi.

Lot Essay

The present lot is one of no fewer than twenty versions of a Domenico Ghirlandajo composition that for years were all assigned to Sebastiano Mainardi (see R, van Marle, 1979, loc. cit.). However it is now agreed that he only executed the partial replica in the Museo Civico, San Gimignano.