Lot 270: NICCOLÒ GIOLFINO

THE PROPERTY OF LORENZO CORSINI, ESQ.
VERONA 1476-1555
TWO PANELS PROBABLY FROM A CASSONE:
THE MURDER OF THE MAGUS SMERDIS;
THE CORONATION OF DARIUS

Quantity: 2
a pair, both oil on panel
each: 25.5 by 31 cm.; 9 7/8 by 12 1/4 in.

L. Cust,"La Collection de M. R-H Benson", in Les Arts, 70, Paris, October 1907, pp. 20 and 22;
T. Borenius, Catalogue of Italian Pictures...Collected by Robert and Evelyn Benson. London 1914, pp. 225-26, cat. nos. 111 and 112;
P. Schubring, Cassoni, Leipzig 1915, p. 379, cat. nos. 701 and 702;
Collection Marczell von Nemes, Catlogue de Tableaux, 1931, p. 17, cat. nos. 25 and 26, reproduced;
B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, Central and North Italian Schools, London 1968, vol. I, p. 171;
P. Bugnoli (ed.), Maestri della pittura veronese, Verona 1974, p. 158;
M. Repetto Contaldo, "Novità e precisazioni su Nicola Giolfino" in Arte Veneta, vol. 30, 1976, p. 75;
B. Wollesen-Wisch, Italian Reniassance Art. Selections from the Piero Corsini Gallery, exhibition catalogue, University Park, Pennsylvania 1987, pp. 30-31, reproduced in colour.

Manfrin Gallery, Venice;
Acquired from the above in 1886 by Robert-Hugh Benson, London;
Marczell von Nemes (1866-1930);
By whose Estate sold, Munich, Mensing & Son and others, 16 June 1931, lots 25 and 26 (together with lot 27, another panel depicting Orciagon and Chiomara) for 11,400 Marks;
With Piero Corsini, New York;
Thence by descent.