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Grifo di Tancredi

Painted Cassetta with the Vir Dolorum, the Madonna and Saint John the Evangelist, and a Female Saint (Possibly Saint Helena), Ten Female Martyr Saints, and Ten Angels

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February 2, 03:31 PM GMT

Estimate

1,400,000 - 1,800,000 USD

Lot Details

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Grifo di Tancredi

active in Florence by 1271 until at least 1303

Painted Cassetta with the Vir Dolorum, the Madonna and Saint John the Evangelist, and a Female Saint (Possibly Saint Helena), Ten Female Martyr Saints, and Ten Angels


tempera on panel, gold ground

overall: 11 by 9 ¼ by 12 in.; 28.0 by 23.5 by 30.5 cm

Please note the updated publication history on the present lot.

Possibly Odescalchi collection, Rome;

Private collection, Switzerland, 1972 and until at least 1977;

With David Carritt, London;

From whom acquired by Marco Grassi, New York;

From whom acquired by Carlo De Carlo, Florence, by 1986;

His second estate sale, Venice, Franco Semenzato, 19 April 2001, lot 174 (as Gaddo Gaddi, the Maestro della Madonna di San Remigio, an attribution suggested by Luciano Bellosi);

Private collection, Switzerland;

With Brimo de Laroussilhe, Paris, 2011;

The Alana Collection, New York, 2011;

From whom acquired.

E.B. Garrison, Ms., 1977 (as Venetian School, 13th century);

A. Tartuferi, “Per Grifo di Tancredi: un’aggiunta e alcune conferme,” in Paragone 45, nos. 529-533 (1994), pp. 5-8;

R. Bagemihl, “Some thoughts about Grifo di Tancredi of Florence and a little known panel at Volterra,” in Arte Cristiana 87 (1999), p. 413;

L. Bellosi, in Un tesoro rivelato: Capolavori dalla Collezione Carlo De Carlo, exhibition catalogue, M. Scalini and A. Tartuferi (eds.), Florence 2001, p. 20, cat. no. 5, reproduced p. 44 and in color plate IV (as Gaddo Gaddi, the Master of the Madonna of San Remigio);

A. Tartuferi, Un tesoro rivelato: Capolavori dalla Collezione Carlo De Carlo, 2001, p. 44, cat. no 5, reproduced, p. 44, reproduced in color plate IV;

A. Tartuferi, “Grifo di Tancredi,” in Dizionario biografico degli italiani, vol. LIX, Rome 2002, p. 398;

S. Chiodo, in L’arte a Firenze nell’età di Dante 1250-1300, exhibition catalogue, A. Tartuferi and M. Scalini (eds.), Florence 2004, pp. 112-113, cat. no. 16, reproduced in color p. 113 (as circa 1288-1290);

S. Chiodo, "Grifo di Tancredi," in Allgemeines Künstlerlexicon, vol. LXII, Leipzig 2009, p. 130;

C. B. Strehlke, in La Collection Alana: Chefs-d’Œuvre de la Peinture Italienne, exhibition catalogue, C. Falciani (ed.), Bussells 2019, pp. 62-63, cat. no. 3, reproduced in color p. 63;

M. Boskovits, in Mediaeval Panel Painting in Tuscany, 12th to 13th Century, A Supplement, S. Chiodo (ed.), Florence 2021, pp. 582-583, cat. no. 203, reproduced (as Attributed to Vigoroso da Siena).

Florence, Galleria dell’Accademia, Un tesoro rivelato: Capolavori dalla Collezione Carlo De Carlo, 2001, no. 5;

Florence, Galleria dell’Accademia, L’arte a Firenze nell’età di Dante 1250-1300, 1 June - 29 August 2004, no. 16;

Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, La Collection Alana: Chefs-d’Œuvre de la Peinture Italienne, 13 September 2019 - 20 January, 2020, no. 3.