Lot 101: Paolo Veneziano (active Venice 1333/58-before 1362)

Paolo Veneziano (active Venice 1333/58-before 1362)
The Veil of Saint Veronica
tempera and gold on panel
8½ in. (21.7 cm.), circular, in the original engaged frame

G. Fiocco, 'Le primizie di Maestro Paolo Veneziano', Dedalo, XI, 1930-1931, p. 892.
S. Bettini, 'Aggiunte a Paolo Veneziano', Bollettino d'arte, XXVIII, 1935, p. 476.
L. Coletti, 'Pittura veneta del tre al quattrocento', Arte veneta, I, 1947, pp. 5-19, as by the son of Paolo.
M. Meiss, Painting in Florence and Siena after the Black Death, Princeton, 1951, pp. 36-37, note 94.
V. Lasareff, 'Maestro Paolo e la pittura veneziana del suo tempo', Arte veneta, VII, 1954, p. 86.
R. Pallucchini, 'La pittura veneziana del trecento' (outline of course taught at Universitá di Bologna), Bologna, 1955, pp. 124, 126.
B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Venetian School, London, 1957, I, p. 128.
R. Pallucchini, La pittura veneziana del trecento, Venice and Rome, 1964, pp. 45-48, fig. 152.
M. Muraro, Paolo da Venezia, Milan, 1969, pp. 68, 78, note 47, 121, 153, pl. 103.
M. Muraro, Paolo da Venezia, University Park, Pennsylvania and London, 1970, pp. 63, 73 note 47, pp. 90, 113, pl. 103.
J. Pope-Hennessy, Learning to Look, New York and London, 1991, p. 89.
M. Lucco et al., La pittura nel Veneto: Il Trecento, Milan, 1992, I, pp. 39-40, 82, note 46, fig. 28.
F. Pedrocco, Paolo Veneziano, Milan, 2003, p. 210, no. A19, as by a follower of Paolo Veneziano on the basis of photographs.

Henry Harris (circa 1870-1950), London; (+), Sotheby's, London, 24-25 October 1950, lot 175, as 'Venetian School, 14th century', where acquired by
Sir John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy (1913-1994), New York, and later, Florence, from whom acquired by the present owner.