The Madonna and Child with Angels

Details

Attributed to Giorgio Schiavone (Skradin, nr. Sibenik ?1433/6-1504 Sibenik)
The Madonna and Child with Angels
on gold ground panel
26 5/8 x 15 7/8 in. (67.6 x 40.3 cm.)

Provenance

William Graham (1817-1885), M.P., by 1882 ('Catalogue of Pictures, Ancient and Modern, 33 Grosvenor Crescent, 1882', no. 458, valued at £40, cf. Garnett); Christie's, 9 April 1886, lot 304 (26 gns. to Agnew on behalf of Graham's daughter Amelia, wife of Sir Kenneth Muir Mackenzie, Bt.).
By descent to the present owner.

Literature

B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, Central Italian and North Italian Schools, London, 1968, p. 392, as 'studio of Schiavone'.
O. Garnett, 'The Letters and Collection of William Graham, Pre-Raphaelite Patron and Pre-Raphaelite Collector', The Walpole Society, 62, 2000, p. 332, no. 289.

Exhibited

London, Matthiesen Gallery, Exhibition of Venetian Paintings and Drawings, 1939, no. 10, illustrated.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

William Graham's attribution of this idiosyncratic picture to the Dalmatian master, Giorgio Schiavone, or Cùlinovic, was presumably suggested by parallels with the signed polyptych from the Dennistoun and Beaucousin collections which was acquired with the latter by the National Gallery, London in 1860.
Graham, who was a major patron of Burne-Jones and Rossetti, assembled a very remarkable group of early Italian pictures. On his death the collection was sold, over five days, at Christie's: a substantial number of pictures were bought by Agnew's on behalf of Graham's daughters. For a comprehensive study and catalogue see Garnett, op. cit.

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