Lot Essay
An old attribution to Gherardo di Giovanni was suggested by Professor L.D. Ettlinger of the University of California
Details
TUSCAN SCHOOL, circa 1490
The Madonna and Child before a Casement, with Saints Jerome and John the Baptist in a landscape beyond
oil on panel
33 x 23in. (83.9 x 58.4cm.)
The Madonna and Child before a Casement, with Saints Jerome and John the Baptist in a landscape beyond
oil on panel
33 x 23in. (83.9 x 58.4cm.)
Provenance
said to have been in the collection of Cardinal Fesch
Consegnore Budia, Treasurer of the Papal States under Pius IX, Rome, by 1869, from whom purchased by Henry de Forest in January of that year, thence by descent to his son, Lockwood de Forest (1850-1932), and by descent to the present owner
Consegnore Budia, Treasurer of the Papal States under Pius IX, Rome, by 1869, from whom purchased by Henry de Forest in January of that year, thence by descent to his son, Lockwood de Forest (1850-1932), and by descent to the present owner
Exhibited
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1913 as School of Leonardo (on loan from by Lockwood de Forest)