Lot 117: Attributed to Domenico Panetti (Ferrara c. 1460-before 1513)

Attributed to Domenico Panetti (Ferrara c. 1460-before 1513)
Saint Michael
tempera on linen, laid down onto canvas
44 7/8 x 20½ in. (114 x 52 cm.)

Ferrara, Palazzo dei Diamanti, Esposizione della pittura ferrarese del Rinascimento, no. 114.

C. Laderchi, Descrizione della quadreria Costabili. Parte prima. L'antica scuola ferrarese, Ferrara, 1838, pp. 29-30, no. 31 (as 'Frencesco del Cossa').
G. Baruffaldi, Vite de' pittori e scultori ferraresi, ed. G. Boschini, Ferrara, 1844, I, pp. 10-11, note 2.
N. Barbantini, Catalogo della esposizione della pittura ferrarese del Rinascimento, Ferrara, 1933, p. 79, no. 88 (as 'Seguace di Cossa').
R. Longhi, Officina ferrarese, Florence, 1968, pp. 99 and 114 (as 'Tardo ferrarese senza rapporti col Cossa').
V. Sgarbi, 'Ai margini dell'Officina' in La corte e lo spazio: Ferrara estense, ed. G. Papagno and A. Quondam, Rome, 1982, pp. 593-604, pp. 224 (as 'Francesco dai Libri').
V. Sgarbi, 'Restituzioni a Francesco dai Libri', Notizie da Palazzo Albani, 12 (1983), nos. 1-2, pp. 64, fig. 2 (as 'Francesco dai Libri').
S. Marinelli, 'Verona' in La Pittura nel veneto: Il Quattrocento, ed. M. Lucco, Milan, 1990, II, p. 652, note 27 (as not by Francesco dai Libri).
A. Ugolini, 'Rivedendo la collezione Costabili di Ferrara', Paragone, no. 489, November 1990, pp. 55-6, no. L31 (as 'attribuito alla Bottega del Maestro del Cespo di Garofano).
E. Mattaliano in La collezione Costabili, ed. G. Agostini, Venice, 1998, p.42, no. 31, ill. p. 197 (as 'Bottega del Maestro del Cespo Garofano').

Marchese Giovanni Battista Costabili Containi (1756-1841), 11 via Volapaletto, Ferrara by 1835 (with his brand and 1835 inventory number '313' on the reverse), and by descent through Marchese Giovanni Costabili Containi (1815-1882) to Marchese Alfonso Costabili Containi (1848-1913).
Art market, Ferrara, September 1871 to May 1873.
with Giovanni Angelo Genolini, Milan, January 1884; Giulio Sambon, Milan, 27-9 April 1885, lot 35, as 'Cossa'.
Anonymous sale ('Barbarigo'); Genolini and Sambon, Milan, 4-5 April 1887, lot 50.
with Italico Brass (1870-1943), Venice, by 1933.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Florence, 3 June 1977, lot 248.
Anonymous sale; Finarte, Rome, 27 March 1980, lot 23, as 'Attributed to Bernardino Zenale'.
Mario Lanfranchi, Santa Maria in Piano, Parma; Franco Semenzato, Venice, 15 Dec 1985, lot 41, as 'Attributed to Francesco dai Libri'.

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This attribution was first proposed by Professor Federico Zeri whose photographic archives are held by the University of Bologna.
This and a Saint John the Baptist (Cassa di Risparmio di Ferrara on deposit at the Pinacoteca Nazionale, Ferrara) are respectively the right and left sections of a banner, or telero vitagliato, which originally showed the Madonna between the two saints. The two were evidentially acquired by Marchese Giovanni Battista Costabili who had inherited a significant collection from his uncle Francesco Containi in 1778 and greatly enlarged this in the ensuing decades. Traditionally attributed to Francesco del Cossa, the picture was later attributed to the Veronese Master of the Cespo di Garofano, much of whose oeuvre was formerly attributed to Francesco dai Libri.