Giovanni dal Ponte (Florence 1385-1437/8)
Lot 105

Giovanni dal Ponte (Florence 1385-1437/8)

The Madonna and Child with God the Father above

Closed7 July 2017

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GBP 37,500

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Giovanni dal Ponte (Florence 1385-1437/8)
The Madonna and Child with God the Father above
on gold ground panel, shaped top, in an integral frame
33 3/8 x 14 3/8 in. (85 x 36.5 cm.)
inscribed '·AVE·MARIA·G·P·' (lower centre)

Anonymous sale [Property from a family collection]; Sotheby's, New York, 29 January 2015, lot 218, as 'Attributed to Giovanni di Marco, called Giovanni dal Ponte'.

Specialist note

Florence, Galleria dell’Accademia, Giovanni dal Ponte (1385-1437), protagonista dell’Umanesimo tardogotico fiorentino, 22 November 2016-12 March 2017, no. 23.

Angelo Tartuferi dates the picture to the second half of the 1420s and notes that ‘La salda impostazione plastica del gruppo divino riscontrabile nella tavola presente sembrerebbe rinviare ancora al fondamentale periodo masaccesco del nostro, accompagnata pero’ da una ripresa del gusto tardogotico’ (The strong plastic setting of the divine group visible in the present panel seems to refer back to the fundamental Masaccio-esque period of the artist, accompanied though by a recovery of the late-gothic taste) (Florence, 2016-2017, loc. cit.).