The Master of the Fiesole Epiphany (active Florence, 15th Century)

The Madonna and the Infant Baptist adoring the Infant Christ

Details

The Master of the Fiesole Epiphany (active Florence, 15th Century)
The Madonna and the Infant Baptist adoring the Infant Christ
oil on panel, arched top
28¼ x 17.5/8 in. (71.7 x 44.7 cm.)

Provenance

with Trotti, Florence, as 'Sebastiano di Bartolo Mainardi'.
Anon. Sale, Palais Galliera, Paris, 11 June 1971, lot 69, as 'Attributed to Mainardi'.

Literature

E. Fahy, 'Some Early Italian Pictures in the Gambier-Parry Collection', The Burlington Magazine, CIX, March 1967, p. 133, note 22.
Idem, Some Followers of Domenico Ghirlandajo, London and New York, 1976, p. 170, under Homeless pictures by the Master.

Lot Essay

We are grateful to Mr. Everett Fahy for the attribution. The anonymous Master is probably identifiable as Filippo di Giuliano (1449-1503), who is known to have shared a workshop with Jacopo del Sellajo - with whom he shares clear stylistic links - and whose name is 'repeatedly linked with Sellajo's in documents spanning a twenty-year period' (E. Fahy, op. cit., 1967, p. 133).

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