Lot 58: Bernardo Daddi (active c. 1318-1348)

Bernardo Daddi (active c. 1318-1348)
The Madonna and Child enthroned with Saints Francis and Mary Magdalen and a female donor
tempera and gold leaf on panel
54 x 29½ in. (137 x 75 cm.)
inscribed 'MARIA VIRGO INTER' (upper centre, within the Virgin Mary's halo)

Hamburg, Kunsthalle, exhibition of Wedells collection, 1935.

V. Dirksen, 'Die Sammlung Wedells in Hamburg', Kunstchronik und Kunstmarkt, XXXIII, 1922, p. 757, as Circle of Bernardo Daddi.
A. Rohde, 'Die Galerie Wedells in Hamburg', Der Cicerone, XIV, no. 12, 1922, p. 506.
B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, Oxford, 1932, p. 166, as Daddi.
R. Van Marle, 'La Collezione del Haus Wedells di Amburgo', Dedalo, XIII, 1933, p. 244, illustrated pp. 245 and 246 (detail of donor), as Daddi.
R. Offner, A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting, III, IV, Bernardo Daddi, His Shop and Following, New York, 1934, pp. 121-2, 133, pls. XLVIII, XLVIII1 (detail of Madonna and Child), XLVIII2 (detail of Mary Magdalen), XLVIII3 (detail of donor), as close following of Daddi.
B. Berenson, Pitture italiane del rinascimento, Milan, 1936, p. 142, as Daddi.
D.C. Shorr, The Christ Child in devotional images in Italy during the XIV century, New York, 1954, pp. 183-4, illustrated, as follower of Daddi.
B. Berenson, Italian pictures of the Renaissance: Florentine School, London and New York, 1963, I, p. 54, as Daddi.
B. Klesse, Seidenstoffe in der italienischen Malerei des 14. Jahrhunderts, Bern, 1967, p. 192, no. 51d, as follower of Daddi.
M. Boskovits, in R. Offner, A critical and historical corpus of Florentine painting, III, IX, The painters of the miniaturist tendency, Florence, 1984, p. 32, note 98, as Daddi.
R. Offner, A critical and historical corpus of Florentine painting, III, III, The works of Bernardo Daddi (revised ed. by M. Boskovits), Florence, 1989, pp. 46 and 85, note 56, as close following of Daddi.
M. Boskovits, The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection: Early Italian Painting, 1290-1470, London, 1990, p. 64, note 1.
R. Offner, A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting, III, IV, Bernardo Daddi, His Shop and Following (revised ed. by M. Boskovits), Florence, 1991, pp. 23, 363-4, pls. XLVIII (prior to cleaning), XLVIII (detail of donors) (recording Klara Steinweg's manuscript opinion that painting, following its cleaning, is by Daddi himself), p. 389 (with Offner's attribution to the close following of Daddi), pp. 508, 511 (attributed by Boskovits to Daddi himself).

Purchased, probably in Paris, by Siegfried Wedells (1848-1919), Hamburg, by whom bequeathed in 1921 to
Hamburg, Kunsthalle, by whom sold, circa 1960.

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.
Bernardo Daddi (active c. 1318-1348)
The Madonna and Child enthroned with Saints Francis and Mary Magdalen and a female donor
tempera and gold leaf on panel
54 x 29½ in. (137 x 75 cm.)
inscribed 'MARIA VIRGO INTER' (upper centre, within the Virgin Mary's halo)