LOT DETAILS

Materials:

a set of five, tempera on poplar panel, gold ground, with pointed tops

Size Notes:

side panels: 123 by 42 cm

Description:

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Markings:

remains of an inscription, and probably a date, along the lower edge of the panels

Condition:

unframed (presented as five separate panels)

Literature:

R. Offner, "A Ray of Light on Giovanni del Biondo and Niccolò di Tommaso", in Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, VII, July 1956, p. 189 (as workshop of Giovanni del Biondo);; R. Offner and K. Steinweg, A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting, New York 1969, Section IV, vol. V, part 2, pp. 59-60, reproduced plates XXVI-XXVI3 (as workshop of Giovanni del Biondo);; E. Skaug, "Punch marks - what are they worth? Problems of Tuscan workshop interrelationships in the mid-fourteenth century: the Ovile Master and Giovanni da Milano", in H.W. van Os and J.R.J. van Asperen de Boer eds., La pittura del XIV e XV secolo, il contributo dell'analisi tecnica alla storia dell'arte, Bologna 1983, p. 282, detail reproduced fig. 24 (as by Giovanni del Biondo);; E. Skaug, Punch Marks From Giotto to Fra Angelico, Oslo 1994, vol. I, p. 201 (as Giovanni del Biondo and datable to 1371).

Provenance:

Dr Röhrer, Ammersee; Otto Henkel, Wiesbaden; Private collection, Germany (all of the above according to Offner, under Literature, 1969).