Live Auction 2534Old Master Paintings Part I
The Master of the Misericordia (Florence, active mid-14th century)
Lot 5 PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN COLLECTOR

The Master of the Misericordia (Florence, active mid-14th century)

Saint Anthony Abbot and Saint James the Greater

Closed25 January 2012

Price Realised

USD 542,500

Considering selling a similar item?

Discover its value with a complimentary estimate from our specialists.

More Information

How to sell

The Master of the Misericordia (Florence, active mid-14th century)
Saint Anthony Abbot and Saint James the Greater
tempera and gold on panel
16 1/8 x 21¼ in. (41.1 x 54 cm.)

George Augustus Frederick Cavendish-Bentinck, M.P.(1821-1890). with Mori (?), Paris, where purchased by the following on 5 June 1923. Michel van Gelder, Château Zeeerabbe, Uccle, where placed in the Salle Italienne II; and by descent.

Specialist note

These panels from the left side of a polyptych, traditionally attributed to Spinello Aretino, were attributed by Miklós Boskovits to the Master of the Misericordia, a major Florentine painter of the third quarter of the fourteenth century who was formed under the influence of Taddeo Gaddi and Bernardo Daddi, and subsequently developed in parallel with Giovanni da Milano. The oeuvre of the anonymous master was first isolated by Offner in 1958 but subsequently expanded by Zeri and Boskovits, among others. Boskovits considered that these panels probably flanked the Master's Madonna and Child at Ponce, Puerto Rico (Kress Collection), itself first attributed to the artist by Zeri in 1968, and dates the three panels to 1365-1370.