Live Auction 22900Old Masters
ITALIAN SCHOOL, 15TH CENTURY
Lot 10

ITALIAN SCHOOL, 15TH CENTURY

Saint Lucy; and Saint Bernardino of Siena

Closed23 May 2024

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USD 40,000–60,000

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ITALIAN SCHOOL, 15TH CENTURY
Saint Lucy; and Saint Bernardino of Siena
the second inscribed 'BENE.FACITE'
tempera and gold on panel, in engaged frames
each 23 ¾ x 14 ¾ in. (59 x 37.5 cm.)(2)
a pair

Bellini collection, Florence, by 1955.
with Ira Spanierman, New York, by 1967 (Saint Bernardino).
Imelda Markos, Manila.
[Property to be sold on behalf of The Republic of the Philippines through the Presidential Commission on Good Government]; Christie's, New York, 11 January 1991, lot 40.

Specialist note

While both these panels were known to Bernard Berenson, the art historian does not appear to have connected the two, as their photographs were catagorized separately in his archive. On the reverse of Berenson's image of Saint Bernardino, his handwritten notes indicate he thought it to be by an artist close to the Sienese painters, Pellegrino di Mariano or Giovanni d'Ambrogio (Hollis image no. 8086330). Saint Lucy, meanwhile, he noted was 'near, but not by, Fra Filippo Lippi' (Hollis image no. 8097156). Federico Zeri appears only to have been aware of the Saint Bernardino panel was also unable to suggest an attribution, observing that it was by an anonymous Paduan hand, influenced by Francesco Squarcione (Zeri Fototeca nos. 28080).