Lot 12: Neri di Bicci (Florence 1418-1492)

The Madonna and Child with a Bishop Saint, Saints Catherine of Alexandria, Margaret of Antioch and Francis of Assisi
oil on canvas, transferred from panel
53 1/2 x 76 3/4 in. (135.9 x 194.9 cm.)

Illustrated Catalogue of the Eigth [sic] Series of 100 Paintings by Old Masters, Sedelmeyer Gallery, Paris, 1902, p. 78, no. 63 illustrated.
Catalogue of the W.P. Wilstach Collection, Philadelphia, 1904, pp. 18-9, no. 23.
The W.P. Wilstach Collection, supplement, 1906, no. 24.
The W.P. Wilstach Collection, Philadelphia, 1910, no. 34.
Catalogue of the W.P. Wilstach Collection, Philadelphia, 1922, p. 89, no. 229, as attributed to Neri di Bicci.
B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Florentine School, London, 1963, I, p. 157.

Emile Gavet, Paris; sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 31 May-June 1897, lot 730 (9,300 francs).
with Galerie Sedelmeyer, Paris, before 1902, from whom purchased by
Mr and Mrs. W.P. Wilstach, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by whom bequeathed to
The Philadelphia Museum of Art; sale, Samuel T. Freeman & Co., Philadelphia, 20-23 October 1954, lot 96, as attributed to Neri di Bicci, where acquired by a member of the family of the present owner.

The Madonna in the present painting corresponds to that in The Madonna and Child with attendant Saints formerly in the Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne (see R. van Marle, The Development of the Italian School of Painting, X, The Hague, 1928, p. 532, fig. 317.)

Everett Fahy has confirmed the attribution to Neri di Bicci, after inspection of the original.

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