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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jan 27, 2011 | Sotheby's | New York | Important Old Master Paintings & Sculpture | 108 | $****** - ****** | The Nativity by Benvenuto di Giovanni |
paintings
199.4 x 160 cm (78.5 x 62.99 in)
tempera on panel, arched top
inscribed on the scroll of John the Baptist in the left tondo: ECCE AGNIUS (sic)
Recorded in the Chapel of S. Egidio, Convento di San Francesco, near Cetona, Italy, circa 1860
With Stefano Bardini (1836-1922), Florence, by 1887
Michel van Gelder, Brussels, by 1921
Thence by inheritance to his wife, by 1936
With Thomas Agnew & Sons, Ltd., London, 1953
From whom acquired by the J. Paul Getty Museum, 1954.
Brussels, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, 1921, on loan from Michel van Gelder, (as Benvenuto di Giovanni).
Most probably F. Brogi, Inventario generale degli oggetti d'Arte della Provincia di Siena [compiled 1860-1865], Siena 1897, p. 107 (as Benvenuto di Giovanni del Guasta)1; A. Venturi, "Esposizione dei primitivi italiani a Bruxelles," in L'Arte, vol. 25 (1922), p. 168, reproduced (as Benvenuto di Giovanni); R. van Marle, The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, The Hague 1937, vol. 16, pp. 404-407, reproduced p. 407, fig. 235 (as Benvenuto di Giovanni); F. Bologna, "Miniature di Benvenuto di Giovanni," in Paragone, vol. 51 (March 1954) p. 18; "New Acquisitions," in The Art Quarterly, vol. XVIII (1955), p. 85, reproduced (as Benvenuto di Giovanni); E. Le Vane and J. Paul Getty, Collector's Choice: The Chronicle of an Artistic Odyssey through Europe, London 1955, p. 226 (as Girolamo di Benvenuto); W. Valentiner and P. Wescher, The J. Paul Getty Museum Guidebook, Los Angeles 1956, p. 18, reproduced pl. 7 (as Benvenuto di Giovanni); B. Fredericksen, A Handbook of the Paintings in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu 1965, p. 13, no. A54.P-10, reproduced pl. 5 (as Benvenuto di Giovanni); J. Paul Getty, The Joys of Collecting, New York 1965, pp. 31, 88, reproduced p. 89 (the entry on p. 88 written by J. Held) (as Girolamo di Benvenuto); B. Fredericksen and D. Davisson, Benvenuto di Giovanni, Girolamo di Benvenuto: Their Altarpieces in the J. Paul Getty Museum and a Summary Catalogue of Their Paintings in America, Malibu 1966, pp. 6, 18-22, 35, reproduced figs. 1, 3, 4 (as Girolamo di Benvenuto and/or Benvenuto di Giovanni); B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Central Italian and North Italian Schools, New York 1968, vol. 1, p. 40, (as Benvenuto di Giovanni); B. Fredericksen, Catalogue of the Paintings in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu 1972, pp. 22-23, no. 26 (as Girolamo di Benvenuto); B. Fredericksen and F. Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, Cambridge, MA 1972, p. 92 (as Girolamo di Benvenuto); L. Cristin, ed., The J. Paul Getty Museum Guidebook, Malibu 1975, p. 59 (as Girolamo di Benvenuto); B. Fredericksen, The J. Paul Getty Museum: Greek and Roman Antiquities, Western European Paintings, French Decorative Arts of the Eighteenth Century, London 1975, p. 83, reproduced (as Girolamo di Benvenuto); M.C. Bandera, "Variazioni ai Cataloghi Berensoniani di Benvenuto di Giovanni," in Scritti di storia dell'arte in onore di Ugo Procacci, Milan 1977, vol. 1, p. 312 (as a difficult attribution but ultimately closer to Girolamo di Benvenuto); The J. Paul Getty Museum Guidebook, 4th Edition, Malibu 1976, p. 62 (as Girolamo di Benvenuto); The J. Paul Getty Museum Guidebook, Malibu 1978, p. 78 (as Girolamo di Benvenuto); F. Scalia and C. de Benedictis, Il Museo Bardini a Firenze, Milan 1984, vol. 1, p. 125, reproduced in situ in the Bardini collection in 1890, figs. LXXIII, LXXIV (as Girolamo di Benvenuto); D. Arasse and Andreas Tönnesmann, La Renaissance Maniériste, Paris 1997, p. 319, reproduced; D. Jaffé, Summary Catalogue of European Paintings in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles 1997, p. 53, reproduced (as Girolamo di Benvenuto); A. Rothe and G. Marussich, "Florentine Structural Stabilization Techniques," in The Structural Conservation of Panel Paintings: Proceedings of a Symposium at the J. Paul Getty Museum (24-28 April 1995), K. Dardes and A. Rothe, eds., Los Angeles 1998, p. 308, details reproduced figs. 2b, 3, 4 (as Girolamo di Benvenuto); M.C. Bandera, Benvenuto di Giovanni, Milan 1999, p. 249, no. XIII, reproduced p. 134 (as Girolamo di Benvenuto ?); E. Fahy, L'Archivo Storico Fotografico di Stefano Bardini: Dipinti, Disegni, Miniature, Stampe, Florence 2000, p. 47, no. 404, reproduced, p. 249 and fig. 49 in situ in the galleria in 1887 (as Girolamo di Benvenuto).
