Lot 160: PROPERTY FROM A NOBLE EUROPEAN PRIVATE COLLECTION MARCO D'OGGIONO OGGIONO 1470/75 - 1524 MILAN THE

PROPERTY FROM A NOBLE EUROPEAN PRIVATE COLLECTION MARCO D'OGGIONO OGGIONO 1470/75 - 1524 MILAN THE HOLY FAMILY

oil on panel, the reverse painted with grotesques and satyrs en brunaille (see fig. 1)

PROVENANCE

Von Hadeln collection, Florence, until 1928 (as D'Oggiono);
With an art gallery in Scandinavia (according to Sedini, see Literature);
Van Diemen sale, Berlin, Graupe, 26-29 April 1935, lot 53 (as D'Oggiono);
Professor Dr. Ernst Schneider, Düsseldorf, by whom given in the 1960s to a member of the family of the present owner;
Thence by descent.
LITERATURE AND REFERENCES

W. Suida, Leonardo und sein Kreis, Munich 1929, pp. 55, 204;
W. Suida, "Marco d'Oggiono, Ammerkungen und Beiträge", in Raccolta Vinciana, vol. XV-XVI, 1935-39, p. 140;
B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Central Italian and North Italian Schools, London 1968, p. 242;
G. Marcora, Marco d'Oggiono, Oggiono 1976, p. 242;
M. Natale, in Zenale e Leonardo, 1982, p. 130, under cat. no. 39 (as D'Oggiono and datable to circa 1510);
D. Sedini, Marco d'Oggiono, Rome 1989, p. 178, cat. no. 86, reproduced (as School of D'Oggiono; opinion based on an old photograph).
CATALOGUE NOTE

The attribution to D'Oggiono was first proposed by Wilhelm Suida and was further endorsed by Mauro Natale (see Literature). Sedini, knowing the painting only through an old photograph, was more tentative in his assessment and included the painting under workshop pictures in his monograph; an opinion he has since revised on seeing the painting in better photographs. The presence of the cushion on which the Christ Child sits is a direct quotation from Andrea Solario; an observation first made by Sedini in his monograph. We are grateful to Dr. Pietro Marani and Dr. Domenico Sedini who, on the basis of photographs and transparencies, have independently endorsed a full attribution to D'Oggiono.

Please note that this painting is being offered for sale under a settlement agreement between the current possessor of the painting and the heirs of Jakob and Rosa Oppenheimer. The settlement agreement resolves the dispute over ownership of this painting and full title to the painting will pass to the successful bidder.

47 by 38 cm.; 18 1/2 by 15 in.