Lot 30: Liberale da Verona (Verona c. 1445-1527/9)

Liberale da Verona (Verona c. 1445-1527/9)
The Madonna and Child
oil on panel
35 x 27½ in. (89 x 69.8 cm.)

Manchester, City Art Gallery, Art Treasures Centenary Exhibition, 1957, no. 45, as attributed to Mantegna.

R. Fry, 'Madonna and Child by Andrea Mantegna', The Burlington Magazine, LXIV, 1933, pp. 69 ff, pl. 11A, as by Mantegna.
G. Fiocco, Mantegna, Milan, 1937, pp. 67 and 207, as by Mantegna.
E. Tietze-Conrat, Mantegna, Paintings, Drawings, Engravings, complete edition, London, 1955, p. 184, fig. 14, qualifying the attribution to Mantegna.
R. Cipriani, Tutta la pittura del Mantegna, Milan, 1962, pp. 79-80, rejecting the attribution to Mantegna.
E. Camesasca, Mantegna, Milan, 1964, p. 128, as by Mantegna.
C. del Bravo, Liberale da Verona, Florence, 1966, pl. CII, as by Liberale da Verona.
R. Lightbown, Mantegna, Oxford, 1986, p. 480, no. 173, among 'other paintings attributed to Mantegna'.
C. Fiocco and G. Cherardi, in T. Wilson and E.P. Sani, Le maioliche rinascimentali nelle collezioni della Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Perugia, Perugia, 2007, pp. 196, 201, fig.2 and 406, as Workshop of Mantegna.

with Podio, Bologna.
with Thomas Agnew and Sons, London, 1933, from whom purchased by the following,
William Urwick Goodbody (1883-1949), Invergarry House, Invernesshire, and by inheritance to his daughter,
Mrs. T.E. Nelson, Achnacloich, Connel, Argyllshire.