HISTORICAL INTEREST, ONCE HOUSE FILIPPINO LIPPI, THE MADONNA...

Estimate

£1,000 - £2,000

HISTORICAL INTEREST, ONCE HOUSE FILIPPINO LIPPI, THE MADONNA AND CHILD WITH TWO ANGELS, A LARGE DECORATIVE EARLY 19TH CENTURY GILTWOOD AND GESSO FRAME
With circular acanthus leaf and flowerhead decoration surrounded by four randles of starfish, octopus, diving dolphins, two lizards, Exhibition labels and wax seals verso.
(128cm x 128cm)

Provenance: Colonel Alcock, 1882, and by descent to Miss J.E. Alcock, Portman Square, London; (+) sale, Christie's, London, Nov. 25, 1899, lot 21 as 'D. Ghirlandajo' (145gns. to Agnews).
with Charles Sedelmeyer, Paris, 1900 as Domenico Ghirlandajo.
Henri Heugel, Paris.

GALERIE CHARPENTIER 1949
Anon. Sale, Sotheby's, London, Dec. 14, 1977, lot 53 as Raffaellino del Garbo (£22,000).
with Colnaghi, London, 1978.

EXHIBITED: London, Royal Academy, Winter Exhibition, 1882, no. 187 as Domenico Ghirlandaio.
Warsaw, Royal Castle, Opus Sacrum, April 10-Sept. 23, 1990, pp. 104-5, no. 17 (catalogue entry by Marcin Fabiánski).

LITERATURE: Catalogue of...100 Paintings by Old Masters...[in] the Sedelmeyer Gallery, 1900, no. 58 as Domenico Ghirlandaio, illustrated.
S. Reinach, Répertoire de Peintures etc., 1907, II, p. 187 as Domenico Ghirlandajo.
R. van Marle, The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, 1931, XII, p. 372, as School of Filippino Lippi.
A. Scharf, Fillipino Lippi, 1935, p. 116, no. 123.
B.Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, Florentine School, 1963, I, p. 110.