Lot 3: BERNARDO DADDI

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION
ACTIVE IN FLORENCE CIRCA 1320 TO 1348
THE LEFT SHUTTER OF A DIPTYCH:
THE MADONNA AND CHILD ENTHRONED WITH SAINTS PAUL(?), BARTHOLOMEW, AN EVANGELIST (SAINT MATTHEW?) AND CATHERINE OF ALEXANDRIA


tempera on panel, gold ground, integral frame
painted surface: 28 by 18.5 cm.; 11 by 7 1/4 in.;
overall: 34.3 by 22.8 cm.; 13 1/2 by 9 in.

G. Vitzhum and W.F. Volbach, Die Malerei und Plastik des Mittelalters in Italien, 1924, p. 298 (as close following of Daddi);
R. Offner, A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting, Section III, vol. VIII, New York 1958, p. 206 (as close following of Daddi) ;
W. Kermer, Studien zum Diptychon in der sakralen Malerei, Diss. Univeristy of Tübingen, 1967, p. 52, no. 48 (as close following of Daddi);
M. Boskovits and E. Neri Lusanna, A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting, Section III vol. III, Florence 1989, p. 390 (as by Daddi);
M. Boskovits, A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting, Section III, vol. IV, Bernardo Daddi, his shop and following, Florence 1991, pp. 20, 213-215, and 512), reproduced plate XXIIIa (as by Bernardo Daddi);
E.S. Skaug, Punch marks from Giotto to Fra Angelico..., Oslo 1994, vol. I, p. 100.

Kammerherr Fritz von Goldammer (1866-1927), Frankfurt-am-Main;
His widow, Frau Else von Goldammer (1878-1950), Frankfurt and Berlin;
Thence by inheritance to the great-great-nephew of the above;
With Albrecht Neuhaus, Würzburg;
Acquired from the above by the father of the present owner in August 1986.