LUCA DI TOMMÉ (ACTIVE SIENA, 1356-1389)
St. Michael; Spandrels: The Prophets Malachi and Samuel
Details
LUCA DI TOMMÉ (ACTIVE SIENA, 1356-1389)
St. Michael; Spandrels: The Prophets Malachi and Samuel
tempera and gold ground on panel
45 x 19 ¹/₈ in. (114.4 x 48.5 cm.)
St. Michael; Spandrels: The Prophets Malachi and Samuel
tempera and gold ground on panel
45 x 19 ¹/₈ in. (114.4 x 48.5 cm.)
Provenance
Commissioned for the church of San Michele Arcangelo, Passignano.
Henri Chalandon, La Grange Blanche, Parcieux, near Trévoux, by 1907, and by descent in the family until acquired probably in the 1950s by the following,
Anonymous Sale; Sotheby’s, London, 8 July 2009, lot 20, where acquired by the present owner.
Henri Chalandon, La Grange Blanche, Parcieux, near Trévoux, by 1907, and by descent in the family until acquired probably in the 1950s by the following,
Anonymous Sale; Sotheby’s, London, 8 July 2009, lot 20, where acquired by the present owner.
Literature
B. Berenson, The Central Italian Painters of the Renaissance, London, 1909, p. 141, as ‘Bartolo di Fredi’.
M. Meiss, ‘Notes on Three Linked Sienese Styles,’ The Art Bulletin, XLV, 1, March 1963, p. 48, note 12, as ‘the so-called "Sienese Master of the Magdalen Legend," a follower of Luca di Tommé’.
B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Central Italian and North Italian Schools, I, London, 1968, p. 30, as ‘Bartolo di Fredi’.
C. De Benedictis, La pittura senese, 1330-1370, Florence, 1979, p. 67, note 80.
S. D'Argenio in M. Gregori, ed., La Fondazione Roberto Longhi a Firenze, Milan, 1980, p. 242, under no. 22.
G. Chelazzi Dini, Il Gotico a Siena, exhibition catalogue, Siena, 1982, p. 278, under no. 103.
C. Volpe, Early Italian Paintings and Works of Art, 1300-1480, exhibition catalogue, London, 1983, p. 29, under no. 13.
S.A. Fehm, Jr., Luca di Tommè: A Sienese Fourteenth-Century Painter, Carbondale, 1986, pp. 26 and 35, note 21, as 'Workshop of Luca di Tommé’.
G. Freuler, 'L'Eredità di Pietro Lorenzetti verso il 1350: novità per Biagio di Goro, Niccolò di Ser Sozzo e Luca di Tommè,' Nuovi studi, IV, 1997, pp. 20, 23-26 and 31, notes 41, 47-48 and 56, figs. 30-34.
P. Palladino, Art and Devotion in Siena after 1350: Luca di Tommè and Niccolò di Buonaccorso, exhibition catalogue, San Diego, 1997-1998, pp. 40, 43 and 46, fig. 40.
M. Gregori, M. Bandera and D. Banzato, Caravaggio, Lotto, Ribera: quattro secoli di capolavori dalla Fondazione Longhi a Padova, Padua, 2009, p. 70, under no. 8.
N. Matteuzzi, Niccolò di Segna e suo fratello Francesco: pittori nella Siena di Duccio, di Simone e dei Lorenzetti, Florence, 2018, pp. 130 and 135-138.
G. Fattorini, ‘Un Polittico di Luca di Tomme per L’Abbazia di San Michele Arcangelo a Passignano,’ Il Chianti, XXXI, 2021, pp. 40, 42, 46, note 11, fig. 2, tav. IV.
M. Meiss, ‘Notes on Three Linked Sienese Styles,’ The Art Bulletin, XLV, 1, March 1963, p. 48, note 12, as ‘the so-called "Sienese Master of the Magdalen Legend," a follower of Luca di Tommé’.
B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Central Italian and North Italian Schools, I, London, 1968, p. 30, as ‘Bartolo di Fredi’.
C. De Benedictis, La pittura senese, 1330-1370, Florence, 1979, p. 67, note 80.
S. D'Argenio in M. Gregori, ed., La Fondazione Roberto Longhi a Firenze, Milan, 1980, p. 242, under no. 22.
G. Chelazzi Dini, Il Gotico a Siena, exhibition catalogue, Siena, 1982, p. 278, under no. 103.
C. Volpe, Early Italian Paintings and Works of Art, 1300-1480, exhibition catalogue, London, 1983, p. 29, under no. 13.
S.A. Fehm, Jr., Luca di Tommè: A Sienese Fourteenth-Century Painter, Carbondale, 1986, pp. 26 and 35, note 21, as 'Workshop of Luca di Tommé’.
G. Freuler, 'L'Eredità di Pietro Lorenzetti verso il 1350: novità per Biagio di Goro, Niccolò di Ser Sozzo e Luca di Tommè,' Nuovi studi, IV, 1997, pp. 20, 23-26 and 31, notes 41, 47-48 and 56, figs. 30-34.
P. Palladino, Art and Devotion in Siena after 1350: Luca di Tommè and Niccolò di Buonaccorso, exhibition catalogue, San Diego, 1997-1998, pp. 40, 43 and 46, fig. 40.
M. Gregori, M. Bandera and D. Banzato, Caravaggio, Lotto, Ribera: quattro secoli di capolavori dalla Fondazione Longhi a Padova, Padua, 2009, p. 70, under no. 8.
N. Matteuzzi, Niccolò di Segna e suo fratello Francesco: pittori nella Siena di Duccio, di Simone e dei Lorenzetti, Florence, 2018, pp. 130 and 135-138.
G. Fattorini, ‘Un Polittico di Luca di Tomme per L’Abbazia di San Michele Arcangelo a Passignano,’ Il Chianti, XXXI, 2021, pp. 40, 42, 46, note 11, fig. 2, tav. IV.
Exhibition
Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, La Collection Alana: Chefs-d’œuvre de la peinture italienne,13 September 2019-20 January 2020, no. 17.
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