Live Auction 2511Old Master & 19th Century Paintings, Drawings & Watercolors Part II
The Master of the Squarcialupi Codex (active Florence c. 1410-1415)
Lot 110

The Master of the Squarcialupi Codex (active Florence c. 1410-1415)

The Crucifixion

Closed26 January 2011

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The Master of the Squarcialupi Codex (active Florence c. 1410-1415)
The Crucifixion
tempera and gold on panel
24 x 16½ in. (61 x 42 cm.)

with Douwes, Amsterdam, 1920.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 9 January 1980, lot 76, as 'Bartolomeo di Fruosino'.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 18 January 1983, lot 122, as 'Bartolomeo di Fruosino', where acquired by the family of the present owner and by descent.

Specialist note

The present painting relates to a group of five or six cutout crucifixes, formerly attributed to Bartolomeo di Fruosino, which are now given to the Master of the Squarcialupi Codex, a follower of Lorenzo Monaco who worked at Santa Maria dei Angeli, Florence, in the early 1410s. For more on this artist, see Luciano Bellosi, 'Due note in margine a Lorenzo Monaco miniatore: il "Maestro del Codice Squarcialupi" e il poco probabile Matteo Torelli,' in Studi di storia dell'arte in memoria di Mario Rotili, Naples, 1984, I, pp. 307-14.

We are grateful to Everett Fahy for providing the attribution, upon first-hand inspection.