The Madonna and Child with Angels and Putti

Details

ICILIO FEDERICO JONI (SIENA 1866-1946)
The Madonna and Child with Angels and Putti
tempera on gold ground panel
20 ½ x 17 ¼ in. (52 x 43.8 cm.), with later additions to the upper and lower edges of approx. 1 1⁄8 in. (2.9 cm.)
inscribed 'AVE · MARIA · GRAZIA' (centre, on the Madonna's halo)

Provenance

with Merlotti, Siena, where acquired by,
Dan Fellows Platt (1873-1937), Englewood, New Jersey.
with Wildenstein and Co., Buenos Aires, by 1947, as 'Benvenuto di Giovanni'.
Acquired from the above by the Blaquier-Arrieta Family, 22 October 1963.

Literature

F.M. Perkins, 'Alcuni dipinti senesi', Rassegna d'Arte Senese, VII, 1911, pp. 19 and 20, as 'Benvenuto di Giovanni'.
E.W. Forbes, 'An altar-piece by Benvenuto di Giovanni', Art in America, I, July 1913, p. 178, as 'Benvenuto di Giovanni'.
J.A. Crowe and G.B. Cavalcaselle, with T. Borenius, ed., A History of Painting in Italy, London, 1914, V, p. 164, note 1, as 'Benvenuto di Giovanni'.
P. Misciattelli, 'Una Tavola di Girolamo di Benvenuto e una Terracotta di Neroccio', La Diana: Rassegna d'Arte e Vita Senese, II, 1927, p. 142, as 'Benvenuto di Giovanni'.
B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, Oxford, 1932, p. 76, as 'Benvenuto di Giovanni'.
G.H. Edgell, A History of Sienese Painting, New York, 1932, p. 255, fig. 383, as 'Benvenuto di Giovanni'.
R. van Marle, The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, The Hague, 1937, XVI, pp. 394-396, fig. 225, as 'Benvenuto di Giovanni'.
B.B. Fredericksen and D.D. Davisson, 'Benvenuto di Giovanni. Girolamo di Benvenuto. Their Altarpieces in the J. Paul Getty Museum and A Summary Catalogue of Their Paintings in America', J. Paul Getty Museum Publication, II, 1966, p. 34, as 'Benvenuto di Giovanni'.
M.C. Bandera, 'Variazioni ai cataloghi Berensoniani di Benvenuto di Giovanni', in Scritti di Storia dell'Arte in onore di Ugo Procacci, Milan, 1977, I, p. 312, rejecting the attribution to Benvenuto di Giovanni.
G. Mazzoni, 'Icilio Federico Joni' in Siena tra Purismo e Liberty, exhibition catalogue, Milan and Rome, 1988, p. 199 and 200, fig. 6.
M.C. Bandera, 'I falsi di Benvenuto di Giovanni. Un capitolo importante del collezionismo dei primitivi', Paragone, DLXXXI, 1998, p. 32, fig. 46.
M.C. Bandera, Benvenuto di Giovanni, Milan, 1999, p. 253, no. XXIX.
G. Mazzoni, Quadri antichi del Novecento, Vicenza, 2001, pp. 128, note 1, and 397, fig. 127.

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Icilio Federico Joni, known as the ‘prince’ of Sienese forgers, was a legendary Italian art restorer and painter who produced fakes in the style of Sienese medieval and Renaissance masters. His fakes were so convincing that they deceived leading art historians and curators, with his works ending up in major museums around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art; see, for example, his Madonna and Child with Saints Mary Magdalen and Sebastian in the style of Neroccio de’ Landi in the Robert Lehman Collection (inv. 1975.1.57). The present painting was conceived in the style of Benvenuto di Giovanni (1436-before 1517).

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