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FOLLOWER OF ANDREA DEL SARTO

Madonna and Child with the infant Saint John the Baptist

Details

FOLLOWER OF ANDREA DEL SARTO
Madonna and Child with the infant Saint John the Baptist
oil on canvas
44 x 33 in. (111.8 x 83.8 cm.)

Provenance

Lewis J. Ruskin (1903-1981) and his wife, Lenore Ruskin Heavenrich, née Ginsburg (1920-1993), Scottsdale, by whom gifted in 1959 to the Arizona State University Art Museum.

Literature

'7 Art Masterpieces, valued at $250,000, Given to ASU', The Arizona Republic, 27 November 1958, p. 1, as Domenico Puligo.
E. Johnson, 'College Museum Notes', College Art Journal, Spring 1959, p. 257, as Domenico Puligo.
B.B. Fredericksen and F. Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, Cambridge, 1972, p. 641, as School of Andrea del Sarto.

Exhibited

Tempe, Arizona State University Art Museum, The Painters' Craft: Renaissance and Baroque Paintings in the Permanent Collection, 23 August-6 December 2003, as Domenico Puligo, with erroneous provenance.

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Lot Essay

This composition derives from a lost painting by Andrea del Sarto, known as The Barbadori Holy Family, first recorded by Giorgio Vasari in the Florentine collection of Baccio Barbadori. The lost painting, probably a tondo, included figures of Saint Elizabeth and Saint Joseph in addition to those depicted here. A second autograph version by Andrea del Sarto is preserved in the Musée du Louvre, Paris (inv. no. 714), and a variant by Franciabigio is in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (inv. no. 208).

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