Lot 160: The Madonna and Child enthroned, with Saints Jerome and John the Baptist, in a landscape

Giovanni di Niccolò Mansueti (active Venice, died before 1527) The Madonna and Child enthroned, with Saints Jerome and John the Baptist, in a landscape signed 'IOANNES DE MANSVETIS FACIEBAT' (lower centre) and inscribed 'ECCE AGNVS DEI QV' (on the scroll) oil on panel 14 3/8 x 23 5/8 in. (36.5 x 60 cm.), with later additions of c. ¼ in. on all sides

36.5 x 60 cm.

Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Italiaansche Kunst in Nederlandsch Bezit, 1 July-1 October 1934, no. 213.

T. Borenius, ‘The Venetian School in the Grand Ducal Collection, Oldenburg’, The Burlington Magazine, April 1913, XXIII. 35, p. 26, pl. IIb. R. van Marle, The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, The Hague, 1935, XVII, p. 200. B. Berenson, Pitture Italiane del Rinascimento: catalogo dei principali artisti e delle Ioro opere, con un indice dei luoghi, Milan, 1936, p. 288.

Conte Carlo Castelbarco, Milan. Peter II, Grand Duke of Oldenburg (1827-1900), Augusteum, Oldenburg, by 1869. H.W.C. Tietje, Amsterdam, by 1934. Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 22 February 1956, lot 84. Anonymous sale [The Property of a Gentleman]; Christie’s, London, 18 March 1960, lot 50 (949 gns. to Scharf). with Arthur Kauffmann, London, from whom acquired by the late husband of the present owner.