The Master of Santa Cecilia (active in the first decade of the 14th Century)

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The Master of Santa Cecilia (active in the first decade of the 14th Century)

A Triptych: the Madonna and Child enthroned with two Saints and four Angels, with on the left wing the Flagellation, Saint Mary Magdalen and another Saint, and on the right wing Christ on the Cross with the Virgin, one of the Marys, Saint John the Evangelist and three Angels

tempera on panel

overall (open) 11 3/8 x 12¾in. (29 x 32.5cm.)

Provenance

M. D'Atri, Paris
Mrs. Bonas, 1964
Lady Merton, 1969
with Agnew's, London (Old Master Paintings, Recent Acquisitions, 7 June-27 July 1979, pp.20-1, no.14, illustrated)

Literature

M. Boskovits, A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting, The Fourteenth Century, Section III, Vol. IX, The Painters of the Miniaturist Tendency, Florence, 1984, p.144 and pl.XV

Lot Essay

The present triptych was already regarded as the work of the Master of Santa Cecilia when in the collection of Lady Merton and this attribution was endorsed by Professor Carlo Volpe in a letter of 18 February 1980. When Professor Miklós Boskovits published it in 1984, loc. cit., he had not seen the picture itself and attributed it to the Master of the Madonna della Grazie on the basis of an old photograph taken before restoration. He has since examined the triptych itself and confirmed the attribution to the Master of Santa Cecilia

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