Lot 56: FRANCESCO DI STEFANO, CALLED IL PESELLINO

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION
FLORENCE CIRCA 1422 - 1457
THE MADONNA AND CHILD SEATED ON A WINDOW LEDGE, A LANDSCAPE BEYOND
tempera on panel, the verso painted with feigned marbling
22.2 by 17.4 cm.; 8 3/4 by 6 3/4 in.

Waltham (Mass.), Brandeis University, Rose Art Museum, Major Masters of the Renaissance, 1963, cat. no. 3;
Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1964;
London, Artemis, A Selection of Italian Paintings, 15th-18th Century, 1978, no. 1;
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Prized Posessions: European Paintings from Private Collections of Friends of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 17 June-16 August 1992, cat. no. 110.

M. Logan Berenson, "Compagno di Pesellino", Gazette des Beaux-Arts, no. 26, July 1901, vol. II, p. 28, reproduced, as Compagno di Pesellino;
S. Reinach, Tableaux inedits ou peu connus tirés de collections françaises, Paris 1906, pp. 32-33, reproduced plate XXIV;
S. Reinach, Répertoire des Peintures du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance, vol. 4, Paris 1918, p. 421;
L. Venturi, Italian Paintings in America, New York 1933, p. 11, no. 222, reproduced;
C. Gilbert, Major Masters of the Renaissance, exhibition catalogue, Meriden, Connecticut 1963, pp. 11-12;
"Berichte", in Pantheon, July - August 1963, reproduced p. 250;
A Selection of Italian Paintings, 15th-18th Century, exhibition catalogue, London, 1978, cat. no. 1;
P.C. Sutton, Prized Possessions: European Paintings from Private Collections of Friends of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, exhibition catalogue, Boston 1992, p. 192, cat. no. 110, reproduced in colour p. 16, plate 2.

Charles Timbal (1821-180), Paris, by whom acquired in Italy before 1865;
Gutave Dreyfus (1837-1914) by whom acquired in Paris in 1871-2 with the rest of Timbal's collection;
Purchased from the Dreyfus Estate in 1930 by Duveen Brothers, Inc., New York;
With Mortimer Brandt Gallery, New York, 1964;
Norton Simon Foundation, New York, 1964;
With Artemis, 1977-78;
With E.V. Thaw & Co., New York;
Acquired from the above by an American private collector in 1983;
By whom offered London, Sotheby's, 10 July 2002, lot 55, where purchased after the sale by the present owner.