Attribué à Agnolo et Bartolomeo degli Erri
Virgin and Child
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
Attributed to Agnolo and Bartolomeo degli Erri
Active in Modena during the second half of the 15th Century
Virgin and Child
Tempera on panel, gold ground, polylobed, shaped-top, in an engaged frame
Panel: 63,4 x 41,2 cm ; 25 by 16¼ in.; Fronton : 10 x 25 cm ; 4 by 9⅞ in.
With Pardo, Paris, in 1948 and in 1954 (as Benedetto Bembo).
Paris, Galerie Charpentier, L'Enfance, June 1949, probably under no. 10 (as Benedetto Bembo).
The Burlington Magazine, June 1954 (as Benedetto Bembo);
R. Longhi, Officina Ferrarese, Florence 1956, p. 185, fig. 422 (as Agnolo degli Erri);
A. Ghidiglia Quintavalle, Arte in Emilia, terza. Gli affreschi del Duomo di Modena e reperti d'arte dal Medioevo al Barocco, Modena-Milan 1967, p. 46 (as Agnolo and Bartolomeo degli Erri);
D. Benati, La bottega degli Erri e la pittura del Rinascimento a Modena, Modena 1988, p. 181, repr. (as Giovanni Mazone).
The painting has been the subject of several tentative attributions: Berenson attributed it to the Lombard painter Bonifacio Bembo, while it is listed on the Fondazione Zeri website as attributed to the Ligurian painter Giovanni Mazone.