Master of the Maddalena Assunta

Madonna and child enthroned with Saint Nicholas of Tolentino and Saint Sebastian

Lot Closed

January 28, 03:08 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection of Jacques Goudstikker

Master of the Maddalena Assunta

active in Ferrara in the early 16th century

Madonna and child enthroned with Saint Nicholas of Tolentino and Saint Sebastian

oil on panel

panel: 14¾ by 11⅝ in.; 37.5 by 29.5 cm.

framed: 23⅜ by 18⅝ in.; 59.4 by 47.3 cm.

With Ventura;

With Jacques Goudstikker, Amsterdam, by October 1931 and until 29 June 1940 (stock no. 2132, as Lorenzo Costa);

Looted by the Nazis;

Hermann Göring, Berchtesgarden and Carinhall, by July 1940;

Recovered by the Monuments Men and taken to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 1945 (inv. no. 7181);

Returned to the Dutch Authorities, 23 April 1946;

By whom sold, Amsterdam, Frederick Muller et Cie, 13-19 March 1951, lot 19 (as Lorenzo Costa);

Anonymous sale, Amsterdam, Frederick Muller et Cie, 11-14 December 1956, lot 59 (as Lorenzo Costa);

With Pieter de Boer and Frederick Mont;

With Newhouse Galleries, New York, 1957;

From whom acquired by the Virginia Museum of Replica Handbags s, Richmond, July 1958 (inv. no 58-31);

Restituted to the heir of Jacques Goudstikker by the above, October 2018.

Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Italiaansche kunst in nederlandsch bezit, 1 July - 1 October 1934, no. 92 (as Lorenzo Costa);
Richmond, Virginia Museum of Replica Handbags s, Lost and Forgotten Meanings, 1 February - 3 July 1994.

Catalogue des Nouvelle Acquisitions de la Collection Goudsikker, Amsterdam 1928, cat. no. 7, reproduced (as Lorenzo Costa);
M.M. Hennus, "Tentoonstellingen," Maandblad Voor Beeldende Kunst, December 1928, p. 376, reproduced p. 377;
Italiaansche Kunst in Nederlandsch Bezit, exhibition catalogue, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam 1934, p. 61, cat. no. 92 (as Lorenzo Costa);
R. Van Marle, "La pittura all’esposizione d’arte antica italiana di Amsterdam," in Bollettino d’arte, 28, 1934-1935, p. 452, reproduced fig. 10 (as Lorenzo Costa);
European Art in the Virginia Museum of Replica Handbags s, Virginia Museum of Arts, Richmond 1966, p. 14, cat. no. 10, reproduced (as Attributed to Lorenzo Costa);
B.B. Fredericksen and F. Zeri F. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1972, pp. 216, 629 (as anonymous Ferrarese school, 15th century);
A. Ugolini, "Antologia di Artisti: Il Maestro della Maddalena Assunta," in Paragone, Anno XL, no. 13 (467), 1989, pp. 73, 77, reproduced plate 54 (as Master of the Maddalena Assunta);
W. Angelli and A.G. de Marchi, Pittura dal Duecento al primo Cinquecento nelle fotografie di Girolamo Bombelli, Milan 1991 (as Master of the Maddalena Assunta);
A. Ugolini, “Un nuovo approccio al Maestro della Maddalena Assunta,” in Arte Cristiana, September-October 2013, no. 878, vol. CI, p. 377, no. 27 (listed under his proposed catalogue for the Maestro della Maddalena Assunta).

This charming painting that illustrates the Madonna and Child enthroned with Saint Nicholas of Tolentino on the left and Saint Sebastian on the right is part of the small corpus of works given to the Master of the Maddalena Assunta (or the Master of the Assumption of Mary Magdalen). This anonymous artist was active in Ferrara in the early years of the sixteenth century who was clearly aware of Perugino and came under the influence of Lorenzo Costa, to whom this panel was once ascribed. This artist's eponymous work is a large altarpiece depicting the Assumption of the Magdalen painted for the fourth altar on the right of the Church of Sant' Andrea in Ferrara, but today preserved in the Pinacoteca Nazionale in Ferrara (inv. no. PNFe 78).¹

1. Ugolini 1989, plate 51. https://gallerie-estensi.beniculturali.it/en/collections/works-of-art/#/dettaglio/820933_Elevazione%20di%20Maria%20Maddalena