Workshop of FILLIPPINO LIPPI (c. 1457-1504)

Details

Workshop of FILLIPPINO LIPPI (c. 1457-1504)

Saint Jerome

tempera on panel laid down on panel
19¼ x 13 3/8in. (49 x 34cm.)

Provenance

Stefano Bardini, Florence (his catalogue, no. 708, pl. 112); sale, Christie's, London, May 30, 1902 (=5 day), lot 629, as Filippo Lippi (#25 to Guignot)
Albert d'Andrea, new York
Anon. sale, Sotheby's Parke-Bernet, May 18, 1972, (=2nd day), lot 64, as Attributed to Filippino Lippi ($3,000)
Private Collection, New Jersey; sale, Sotheby's, New York, June 11, 1981, lot 23, as Filippino Lippi ($40,000)

Literature

M. Davies, National Gallery Catalogues: The Earlier Italian Schools, 1961, p. 285
M. Bona Castellotti in M. Boskovits, Martello Collection, 1985, pp. 64-5, no. 18, illustrated in color

Lot Essay

The figure is closely related to the upper part of Saint Jerome in Lippi's altarpiece of The Madonna and Child with Saints Jerome and Dominic, painted c. 1485 for the Rucellai Chapel in the Vallombrosan church of S. Pancrazio, Florence and now in the National Gallery, Londo. Regarded by Marco Bona Castellotti, loc. cit, as a workshop production. An attribution to Lippi himself is support by Everett Fahy