The Madonna and Child

Details

Circle of Antoniazzo Romano (Rome before 1452-1508/12)
The Madonna and Child
tempera and gold on panel
25¼ x 16½ in. (64.1 x 41.9 cm.)

Provenance

A. Carrer, Venice.
with M.J.A.M Schretlen, Amsterdam.
with Jacques Goudstikker, Amsterdam, 1928.
Looted by the Nazi authorities, July 1940.
Recovered by the Allies, 1945.
in the custody of the Dutch Government.
Restituted in February 2006 to the heir of Jacques Goudstikker.

Literature

R. van Marle, The Development of the Italian schools of painting, XV, The Hague, 1934, p. 265, fig. 164, as Antoniazzo Romano.
R. van Marle, 'La pittura all'espozisione d'arte antica italiana di Amsterdam', Bolletino d'Arte, 28, 1934/5, pp. 457-8, note 15.
Catalogus van schilderijn en beeldhouwwerken, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, 1958, p. 10.
G.S. Hedberg, Antoniazzo Romano and his school, I, Ann Arbor, 1980, p. 259.
C. Wright, Paintings in Dutch Museums: An index of oil paintings in public collections of the Netherlands by artists born before 1870, Amsterdam, 1980, p. 10.
Old Master Paintings: An illustrated summary catalogue, Rijksdienst Beeldende Kunst (The Netherlandish Office for the Fine Arts), The Hague, 1992, p. 25, no. 46, illustrated, as 'Antoniazzo Romano'.
C.E. de Jong-Janssen in D.H. van Wengen, Catalogue of the Italian paintings in the Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, 1995, pp. 18-9, fig. 2.

Exhibited

Catalogue des Nouvelles Acquisitions de la Collection Goudstikker, October-November, 1928, no. 35; exposée à Amsterdam, 1928, no. 1, ill, as Antoniazzo di Benedetto Aquilio.
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Italiaansche kunst in Nederlandsch bezit, July-October 1934, no. 10.
Maastricht, Bonnefantenmuseum, on loan from the Instituut Collectie Nederland, Amsterdam, inv. NK 1473.

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Lot Essay

The small size and half-length format of this Madonna and Child identify it as a private devotional object, and the gilded background and animated yet somewhat flat forms hearken back to the Byzantine religious icons from which this type originated. The balustrade on which the Christ Child is poised originates from the Tuscan type and may have been indirectly influenced by relief sculpture. A similar composition of nearly identical size, fully attributed to Antoniazzo, sold at Finarte Semenzato (29 November 2002, lot 490) for 456,000 Euro ($452,380).

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