Lot Essay
We are grateful to Everett Fahy for confirming the attribution to Schiavo
Details
PAOLO SCHIAVO* (1397-1478)
Venus reclining on Pillows holding a Garland of Flowers with a Putto in a Landscape
tempera on panel: the inside of a cassone lid
20 x 67in. (50.8 x 170.2cm.)
Venus reclining on Pillows holding a Garland of Flowers with a Putto in a Landscape
tempera on panel: the inside of a cassone lid
20 x 67in. (50.8 x 170.2cm.)
Provenance
with Luigi Grassi, Florence from whom purchased by the museum in 1972
Literature
E. Callmann, An Apollonio di Giovanni for an Historic Marriage, Burlington Magazine, March 1977, p. 178, note 12