DOMENICO DI MICHELINO* (1417-1491)

Details

DOMENICO DI MICHELINO* (1417-1491)

The Triumph of Eternity: section of a cassone panel

inscribed on the reverse 'C (or G?)M No 35.' and 'Frau Angelico'-- tempera on panel
8 x 19¼in. (20.3 x 49cm.)

Provenance

with Harry Sperling, New York, by 1953
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, March 23, 1955, lot 25, as Fra Angelico (#1,100 to Patch)
Art Market, Bergamo, by 1963
with Thomas Hyland, Greenwich, Connecticut, from whom purchased by the museum in 1970

Literature

L.S. Malke, Die Ausbreitung des verschollenen Urbildzyklus der Petrarcatrionfi durch Cassionipaare in Florenz, Ph.D. dissertation, Freie Universität, Berlin, 1972
B. Fredericksen, Catalogue of the Paintings in the Getty Museum, 1972, p. 14, no. 16, illustrated
L.S. Malke, Contributo alle Figurazioni dei Trionfi e del Canzionere del Petrarca, Commentare, 28, 1977, pp. 236, 240, 250-252, fig. 1b, 6c

Exhibited

Lot Essay

The 'Triumph of Fame' and the 'Triumph of Time' from the same cassone are in the Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna. The series is reconstructed by L.S. Malke (1972, loc. cit). A companion cassone panel, depicting the 'Triumphs of Love, Chastity and Death', is in the Landau Collection, Biblioteca Nazionale, Florence

We are grateful to Everett Fahy for confirming the attribution to Michelino