Lot 3: Lippo d' Andrea , Florence 1377 - after 1427 Madonna and Child with St. John the Baptist, St. Anthony abbot, St. Peter and Mary Magdalene tempera on panel, gold ground, in an engaged frame, arched top

inscribed on the bottom of the frame: AVE MARIA GRATIA PLENA DOMINUS TECHUM BE tempera on panel, gold ground, in an engaged frame, arched top

measurements note 47 2/3 by 23 1/2 in.; 121 by 59.5 cm.

Frankfurt, Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Zweite Veröffentlichung des Staedelschen Kunstinstituts Herausgegeben von Georg Swarzenski, Ausstellung von Meisterwerken alter Malerei aus Privatbesitz, Summer, 1925, no. 108 (as Italian Master, late 14th century);
Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt, Vorläufiges Verzeichnis der Ausstellung von Meisterwerken Alter Malerei aus Privatbesitz im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, Summer, 1925, no. 116 (as Italian Master, late 14th century).

G. Swarzenski, Ausstellung von Meisterwerken alter Malerei aus Privatbesitz, Frankfurt 1925, p. 37, cat. no. 108, reproduced plate VIII (as Italian Master, late 14th century).

Heinrich Kaven, Berlin, by 1917;
His sale (and others), Lepke's, Berlin, March 22, 1917, lot 121 (as by Taddeo Gaddi);
Harry Fuld, Sr., Frankfurt, by 1925 to before 1932;
With Galerie Heinemann, Wiesbaden, 1970's.

PROPERTY FROM A SOUTH AMERICAN COLLECTION (LOTS 3, 4, 7, 8, 37, 42, 54, 55, 71, 76)
We are grateful to Everett Fahy and Miklòs Boskovits for independently attributing the present panel to Lippo d'Andrea, based on photographs. Both Fahy and Boskovits consider this panel to be a mature work by the artist, executed circa 1430. An old handwritten label affixed to the reverse of the panel reads as follows: "Questo quadro è stato portato in casa Tolomei da Francesca di Lorenzo di Niccolò Frescobaldi nel suo corredo...il di Lei spo-salizio seguito ne 24 novembre 1508 con Paolo Tolomeo di Neri di Ser Piero di Tolomeo Gucci Tolomei con Dote di Fiorini dugento d'oro larghi" (This painting was carried to the Casa Tolomei by Francesca di Lorenzo di Niccolo Frescobaldi in her trousseau... following her marriage on the 24 of November 1508 with con Paolo Tolomeo di Neri di Ser Piero di Tolomeo Gucci Tolomei with a dowry of 200 gold fiorentine ducats).

We are grateful to the heirs of Harry Fuld, Jr., for clarifying the provenance of this lot.