
Property from a European Private Collection
The Virgin and Child with Saints Agnes, Thomas Aquinas, Dominic, Catherine of Alexandria, Peter Martyr and John the Baptist, with a music making angel and a donor
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Property from a European Private Collection
Bicci di Lorenzo
Florence 1373–1452 Arezzo
The Virgin and Child with Saints Agnes, Thomas Aquinas, Dominic, Catherine of Alexandria, Peter Martyr and John the Baptist, with a music making angel and a donor
tempera on panel, gold ground, shaped top, in an engaged frame
painted surface: 43.5 x 24 cm.; 17⅛ x 9½ in.
overall: 50.3 x 28.9 cm.; 19¾ x 11⅜ in.
Acquired by the father of the present owner, by 1965;
Thence by inheritance and descent.
Frankfurt, Städel Museum, Kult Bild Das Altar- und Andachtsbild von Duccio bis Perugino. Cult Image – Altarpiece and Devotional Painting from Duccio to Perugino, 7 July – 22 October 2006, no. 56, reproduced in colour (as Bicci di Lorenzo di Bicci).
H. Mayer Brown, ‘Catalogus. A Corpus of Trecento pictures with Musical Subject Matter’, part II/1, instalment 4, in Imago Musicae, 5, 1988, p. 220, no. 641, reproduced p. 221 (as Bicci di Lorenzo);
Kult Bild – Das Altar- und Andachtsbild von Duccio bis Perugino. Cult Image – Altarpiece and Devotional Painting from Duccio to Perugino, J. Sander (ed.), exh. cat., Städel Museum, Frankfurt, 2006, p. 304, no. 56, reproduced in colour pl. 65 (as Bicci di Lorenzo di Bicci);
S. Weppelmann, ‘Kollektives Ritual und persönliche Andacht – Collective Ritual and Personal Devotion’ in Kult Bild – Das Altar- und Andachtsbild von Duccio bis Perugino. Cult Image – Altarpiece and Devotional Painting from Duccio to Perugino, J. Sander (ed.), exh. cat., Städel Museum, Frankfurt, 2006, pp. 225, 244 and 246, no. 56, reproduced in colour p. 227, pl. 65 (as Bicci di Lorenzo di Bicci).
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