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Leonardo di Francesco di Lazzero Malatesta, Leonardo da Pistoia (Pistoia 1483-after 1518)

The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist, the city of Pistoia beyond

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Leonardo di Francesco di Lazzero Malatesta, Leonardo da Pistoia (Pistoia 1483-after 1518)
The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist, the city of Pistoia beyond
oil on panel, tondo
27 1/8 in. (67.8 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Lowe Art Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida; sale [The Property of a Southern Institution], Sotheby's, New York, 11 October 1990, lot 19 ($30,000 to the present owner).

Literature

B.B. Fredericksen and F. Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, Cambridge (Mass.), 1972, pp. 189 and 576, as 'Follower of Sodoma'.

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Lot Essay

Mainly active in and around Pistoia, Leonardo was first recorded in 1516 when he valued a picture by Bernardino di Signoreccio together with Domenico di Piero, il Pisano. The features of the Infant Saint John the Baptist and the regular curly hair are characteristic of the artist's style and are similar to the Child in one of his three signed panels, a Madonna and Child of 1516 (Staatliche Museen, Berlin).

We are grateful to Everett Fahy for the attribution, he points out that the city in the background is Pistoia (letter, 2 November 2001).

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