Lot 80: Paris Bordone (Treviso 1500-1571 Venice)

The Madonna and Child with Saints Anthony Abbot and Francis signed 'O.PAR/BOR.' (lower left) oil on canvas 27 x 343/4 in. (68.6 x 88.2 cm.) PROVENANCE T.C. Felton, Boston. Robert and Bertina Manning, New York. LITERATURE B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Rennaisance, Venetian School, London, 1957, I, p. 47. G. Canova, Paris Bordon, Venice, 1964, pp. 85, fig. 122. EXHIBITION Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, November 1882. New York, Finch College Museum of Art, A Loan Exhibition of Venetian Paintings of the Sixteenth Century (catalogue by R. Manning), 30 October-15 December 1963, no. 16, illustrated. NOTES The Saint Francis recalls the figure of the same saint in the 'Giovanelli Sacra Conversazione', a composition also signed by Bordone and now in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles.