Giovanni di Ser Giovanni, lo Scheggia (1406-1486)

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Giovanni di Ser Giovanni, lo Scheggia (1406-1486)

The Madonna and Child enthroned with eight musicmaking Angels

tempera on gold ground panel

12 3/8 x 10in. (31.5 x 25.5cm.)

Provenance

(Possibly) Thomas Stainton, 37 Welbeck Street, London; (+) sale, Foster's, London, 29 June 1910 (= 2nd day), lot 223 'Florentine School - The Madonna and Child enthroned, gilt background, panel, 11in. by 10in.'
His nephew, Evelyn Stainton, Barham Court, Canterbury, by 1937, and by descent to the present owner

Exhibited

Canterbury, Tower House, Old Masters from Houses in Kent, 11 June--8 July 1937, no.15, as Studio of Francesco di Antonio

Lot Essay

We are grateful to Mr. Everett Fahy for the attribution to lo Scheggia, the younger brother of Masaccio. The present picture is clearly an early work, datable to the second half of the 1420s, when
the artist was in closer touch with progressive developments in Florentine painting than he was to be in subsequent decades. Indeed
the angel in profile was evidently inspired by that in Masaccio's Madonna and Child in the National Gallery, London, the centre panel of his Pisa Polyptych of 1426; lo Scheggia is documented as having been with his brother in Pisa in that year

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