THE MASTER OF THE CAPELLA BASSO DELLA ROVERE
THE MADONNA AND CHILD WITH SAINTS JOSEPH AND JOHN THE EVANGELIST
Estimate: £15,000 - £20,000
Auction: 15 JANUARY 2025 FROM 10:00 GMT
Description
oil on panel
Dimensions
65cm x 49cm (25.5in x 19.25in)
Provenance
Sedelmayer Sale, Paris, 1907, Lot 91 (as Bernardino Pinturricchio);
Huldschinsky Collection, Berlin, 1909 (as Bernardino Pinturricchio);
Gaston von Mallmann Sale, Lepke, Berlin, 12 June 1918, Lot 17 (as Bernardino Pinturricchio);
Silten Collection (as Bernardino Pinturricchio);
Phillips, 6 April 1995, Lot 71;
Anthony Mould Ltd, London, from whom acquired 13 June 2002, £15,000.
Footnote
A version of this composition exists in the Pinacoteca Nazionale, inv. No. 386, which current scholarship has established to be by the artist from Pinturricchio’s Sienese circle, known from his frescoes in Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome, as the Master of the Capella Bosso della Rovere, and who may possibly be identifiable as the young Pacchiarotto (see Filippo Todini, La Pittura Umbra dal Duecento al Primo Cinquecento, Milan, 1989, Vol. I, p. 111, Vol. II illustrated pl/ 271).
Literature:
Voss, Cicerone, 1909, p. 16 (as Bernardino Pinturricchio);
Bode-Volbach, Die Sammlung Silte, 1923, p. 73, no. 20, illustrated pl/ xxix (as Bernardino Pinturricchio)