Genoese School, 1446

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

細節

Genoese School, 1446

The Madonna and Child with Saints Anthony Abbot, James the Great and Catherine of Alexandria and the Blessed Pierre de Luxembourg

inscribed on the book 'Rndus D georgius (e)x Dnis De Passano ac nobilibus ca: (e)pisco pus foce narum /filius q(uondam) nobilis Dni iois g Dni Alexii MCCCCXX XXUI' and with the coat-of-arms of the de Luxembourg family

tempera on gold ground panel

picture surface 33 7/8 x 55 1/8in. (86 x 140cm.)

來源

Ildebrando Bossi, Genoa
Private Collection, New York; Sotheby's, New York, 15 Jan. 1987, lot 8A, as 'Italian Painter working in Avignon, 1446'

出版

M. Natale, La pittura in Liguria nel Quattrocento, in La Pittura in Italia: Il Quattrocento, ed. F. Zeri, 1987, p.15 and p.16, fig.2, as 'Anonimo ligure-provenzale' - 'Una testimonianza di grande interesse è costituita da un paliotto ... datato 1446 ...; il formato, la doratura omogenea del fondo e la presenza di un Beato particolarmente venerato a Avignone sembrano supporre una collocazione provenziale; ricordi dell'attività avignonese di Matteo Giovannetti, cadenze catalane e puntuali riprese compositive da modelli senesi, si compongono in un linguaggio volutamente arcaico, ancora sostanzialmente legato alla cultura del gotico internazionale'

拍品專文

Pierre de Luxembourg was the son of Guy de Luxembourg, Comte de Ligny, and Mathilde de Chatillon, Comtesse de Saint-Pol. He was given a canonry in Notre Dame de Paris at the age of eight and was made a cardinal and Bishop of Metz at fourteen. He died at an early age and was buried at Avignon. The process for his beatification was begun only two years after his death and took less than a year to complete. A number of posthumous portraits of him are known, one of the earliest being in the Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts (M. Laclotte and D. Thiébaut, L'Ecole d'Avignon, 1983, pp.208-9, no.38, illustrated).
The inscription on the book records the donor, Georgius de Pagano, the bishop of Phocaea, a suffragan of the see of Ephesus in Asia Minor, in c.1440-50 (C. Eubel, Hierarchia Catholica Medii Aevi, 1901, II, p.171); the Genoese colony there had Latin bishops, all of whom appear to have been non-resident