Lot Essay
As Professor Boskovits points out, this was probably the right wing of a diptych
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
Bernardo Daddi (active 1328-d.1348)
Details
Bernardo Daddi (active 1328-d.1348)
The Crucifixion
tempera on gold ground panel, shaped top
picture surface 14 x 7 5/8in. (35.5 x 19.5cm.)
The Crucifixion
tempera on gold ground panel, shaped top
picture surface 14 x 7 5/8in. (35.5 x 19.5cm.)
Provenance
James Dennistoun (1803-1855), George Street, Edinburgh, by whom probably acquired in Italy; (+) Christie's, 14 June 1855, lot 7, as Giottino (5½gns. to Hoskins)
Henry Wagner, London, by 1893
Anon. Sale, Sotheby's, 25 Nov. 1970, lot 25, as Bernardo Daddi and Assistants (#8,500 to Vallance)
Henry Wagner, London, by 1893
Anon. Sale, Sotheby's, 25 Nov. 1970, lot 25, as Bernardo Daddi and Assistants (#8,500 to Vallance)
Literature
H. Brigstocke, Memoirs of The Dukes of Urbino. James Dennistoun: Collector and Traveller, The Connoisseur, 198, no.798, Aug. 1978, pp.321 and 322, note 29, and fig.9
M. Boskovits, A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting, Section III, Vol.IX, The Fourteenth Century, The Painters of the Miniaturist Tendency, 1984, p.357 and pl.CLXXXIVa
M. Boskovits and E. Neri Lusanna in R. Offner, A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting, Section III, Vol.III, The Fourteenth Century, The Works of Bernardo Daddi, ed.1989, p.88
M. Boskovits, A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting, Section III, Vol.IX, The Fourteenth Century, The Painters of the Miniaturist Tendency, 1984, p.357 and pl.CLXXXIVa
M. Boskovits and E. Neri Lusanna in R. Offner, A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting, Section III, Vol.III, The Fourteenth Century, The Works of Bernardo Daddi, ed.1989, p.88
Exhibited
London, The New Gallery, Early Italian Art from 1300 to 1550, 1893-4, no.46, as Giottino