Lot 1: JACOPO LANDINI, CALLED JACOPO DEL CASENTINO

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION
PRATO VECCHIO OR AREZZO 1297 - 1349/58 PRATO VECCHIO
A PORTABLE TABERNACLE:
CENTRAL PANEL: THE MADONNA AND CHILD ENTHRONED WITH SAINT NICHOLAS OF BARI, TWO FEMALE SAINTS, SAINT GEORGE(?) AND SIX ANGELS, WITH CHRIST THE REDEEMER IN THE APEX ABOVE
WINGS: THE NATIVITY AND THE CRUCIFIXION WITH THE ANNUNCIATION ABOVE
OUTER WINGS: SAINT JEROME AND A MALE SAINT
tempera on panel, gold ground
central panel
painted surface: 34.5 by 20.5 cm.; 13 1/2 by 8 in.;
overall: 54.5 by 23.5 cm.; 21 1/2 by 9 1/4 in.
Wings
painted surface:35 by 10 cm.; 13 3/4 by 4 in.;
overall: 38.5 by 12 cm.; 15 1/8 by 4 3/4 in.
tabernacle open overall: 54.5 by 48.8 cm.; 21 1/2 by 19 1/4 in.

R. Offner, A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting, section III, vol. I, New York 1931, p. 1n;
R. Offner, A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting. The Fourteenth Century, Section III, vol. VII, New York 1958, p. 136 (as Casentino and studio);
E.S. Skaug, Punch marks from Giotto to Fra Angelico..., Oslo 1994, vol. I, p. 122.

(?) Madame Ingres (according to an old inscription on the reverse);
Kammerherr Fritz von Goldammer (1866-1927), Frankfurt-am-Main;
His widow 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.