Lot 51: Vincenzo Catena (?Venice 1470/80-1531 Venice)

Vincenzo Catena (?Venice 1470/80-1531 Venice) The Virgin and Child with a female Saint inscribed 'Viz[e]nzius [ch?]aena pinxit' (on the ledge below the book) oil and tempera on panel 25 7/8 x 33½ in. (65.7 x 85 cm.)

Art News, 1927, XXVI, no. 5, p. 7. The Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report 1964-65, Chicago, 1965. J. Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago, London, 1970, pp. 251, 278. B.B. Fredericksen and F. Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972, pp. 49, 327, 571. Chicago Tribune Magazine, 22 December 1974, illustrated on the cover. F. Heinemann, Giovanni Bellini e i Belliniani, Hildesheim, 1991, III, p. 6, no. 43x and p. 107, as 'Vincenzo di Girolamo'. C. Lloyd, Italian Paintings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago. A Catalogue of the Collection, Chicago, 1993, pp. 62-64. A. Tempestini, 'La 'Sacra Conversazione' nella pittura veneta dal 1500 al 1516' in La pittura nel Veneto: Il Cinquecento, Milan, 1999, III, p. 941, figs. 1007, 1008.

Private collection, England. with John Levy Galleries, New York, November 1927, where purchased by Chester Tripp, Chicago and London, 1929, by whom gifted to The Art Institute of Chicago, 1964.