Lot 65: ATTRIBUTED  TO  ANTONIO  FEDERIGHI  (1420-1483)ITALIAN,  SIENA,  SECOND  HALF  15TH  CENTURY

BLESSED  GERARD  OF  VILLAMAGNA
marble
89cm.,  35in.

Siena, Palazzo Publico, Jacopo della Quercia nell'arte del suo tempo, 1975;
London, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1980-1996;
Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts; Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, The Italian Renaissance in the Time of Donatello, 1985-1986;
New York, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, Sculpture from the Gothic to the Baroque, 2002-2003

L. Biagi, Jacopo della Quercia, Florence, 1946, p. 78;
G.C. Sciolla, 'Due inediti di scultura Toscana del Quattrocento a Roma', Antichità viva, XI, 5, 1971, pp. 35-38;
G. Chelazzi and G. Previtali Dini, Jacopo della Quercia nell'arte del suo tempo, exhib. cat. Palazzo Publico, Siena, 1975, pp. 264-67, no. XXX;
A. P. Darr (ed.), The Italian Renaissance in the Time of Donatello, exhib. cat. Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, and the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, 1985-1986, pp. 81-82, no. 4 (note writen by Anthony Radcliffe);
J. Beck, Jacopo della Quercia, New York, 1991, vol. 1, pp. 197-8, Handlist 12
A. Butterfield and A. Radcliffe (eds.), Italian Sculpture from the Gothic to the Baroque, exhib. cat. Salander O'Reilly Galleries, New York, pp. 82-9

Count Alessandro Contini-Bonacossi (1878-1955), Florence;
art market, Milan, 1974;
private collection, Switzerland;
British Rail Pension Fund, London;
by whom sold London, Sotheby's, 4 July 1996, lot 30, for £89,500;
Carlo de Carlo, Florence;
his sale, Florence, Semenzato, 6-14 December 2001, lot 129;
with Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York, 2002-2003