Lot 167: f - GIULIANO DI PIERO DI SIMONE BUGIARDINI FLORENCE 1475 - 1554

oil on panel

69 by 51 cm.; 27 by 20 in.

Munich, Jahres Ausstellung, 1906 (according to a label on the reverse).

B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, Oxford 1932, p. 118;
B. Berenson, Pitture italiane del Rinascimento, Milan 1936, p. 102;
B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Florentine School, London 1963, vol. II, p. 45;
L. Pagnotta, Giuliano Bugiardini, Milan 1987, pp. 205-6, cat. no. 33, reproduced fig. 33.

THE PROPERTY OF A LADY

Graf Saurma, Berlin, by 1932;
With Siegfried Ziegler, Grellingen, from whom purchased by the father of the present owner in September 1933 for Sfr. 15,000.

This is one of a group of similar half-length devotional panels depicting the Virgin and Child before a landscape, which derive from Raphael and probably date from the second and third decades of the 16th century. Pagnotta suggests a dating for this painting to circa 1515-18 by comparison with Bugiardini's Madonna and Child in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich (see Literature, p. 205, cat. no. 31, reproduced fig. 31).