Lot 54: GHERARDO DI JACOPO DI NERI, CALLED GHERARDO STARNINA

THE PROPERTY OF A FOUNDATION
RECORDED FLORENCE 1387 - LAST RECORDED1408 EMPOLI, D BEFORE 1413
A FRANCISCAN SAINT MIRACULOUSLY SAVING A WOMAN FROM DROWNING
tempera on gold-ground, poplar panel
39.7 by 36.2 cm.; 15 5/8 by 14 1/4 in.

C. Volpe, `Per il completamento dell'altare di S. Lorenzo del Maestro del Bambino Vispo', in Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Instituts in Florenz, vol. XVII, nos. 2/3, 1973, p. 357 & n17, reproduced p. 355, fig. 7;
C. Syre, Studien zum "Maestro del Bambino Vispo" und Starnina, Bonn 1979, p. 124-125, as by a follower of Starnina;
M. Laclotte, 'Autour de Starnina de Lucques à Valence', in D. Parenti and A Tartuferi (eds.), Nuovi Studi sulla pittura tardogotica. Intorno a Lorenzo Monaco, Florence 2007, p. 66-75.

With Wildenstein, London, by 1973, from whom acquired for the present ownership in April 1982.