Lot 265: MATTEO DI GIOVANNI

THE PROPERTY OF LORENZO CORSINI ESQ.
BORGO SAN SEPOLCRO CIRCA 1430 - 1495 SIENA
SAINT JEROME
tempera on panel, gold ground, in the original gilt framing elements
overall: 69 by 37.5 cm.; 27 1/4 by 14 3/4 in. painted surface: 53 by 21.3 cm.; 20 7/8 by 8 3/8 in.

New York, Piero Corsini, Within the image, 1990;
Sansepolcro, Museo Civico, Un San Gerolamo di Matteo di Giovanni dal polittico senese di San Pietro a Ovile, 1998.

G.F. Hartlaub, Matteo da Siena und seine Zeit, Strasbourg 1910, pp. 41-42;
K. Christiansen, in the exhibition catalogue, Within the image, New York, Piero Corsini, 1990, pp. 6-11;
A. de Marchi, P. Palladino and L. Paardekooper, in D. Gasparotto and S. Magnani, Matteo di Giovanni e la pala d'altare nel senese e nell'aretino 1450-1500, Montepulciano 2002, pp. 51-54, 64-65, 84;
C.B. Strehlke, Italian Paintings 1250-1450 in the John G. Johnson Collection and Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia 2004, pp. 183-90, fig. 34.2;
G. Fattorini, in the exhibition catalogue, Da Jacopo della Quercia a Donatello. Le arti a Siena nel primo Rinascimento, Siena, Pinacoteca Nazionale, 26 March - 11 July 2010, pp. 162-165, reproduced fig. (b).

Purchased in Italy between 1850-70 by Charles Eliot Norton (1827-1908);
Mrs. Richard Norton;
Anonymous sale, New York, Christie's, 31 May 1990, lot 66 (as circle of Lorenzo da Viterbo) for $88,000;
There acquired by Piero Corsini, New York;
Thence by descent.