Lot 214: JACOPO DI CIONE

JACOPO DI CIONE FLORENCE 1320-30 - AFTER MAY 2, 1398 AND BEFORE 1400 FLORENCE SAINT MARGARET tempera on panel, gold ground, shaped top 58 1/2 by 16 3/4 in.; 148.6 by 42.5 cm.

M. Boskovits, La pittura fiorentina alla vigilia del Rinascimento, Florence 1975, p. 322.

H. O'Brien collection, London, by 1970, where the work hung with some other parts of the polyptych;
Sale, Cologne, Lempertz, 24-26 November 1971, lot 178 (as Tuscan School, 15th Century).

This panel depicting Saint Margaret was originally part of a larger polyptych painted by Jacopo di Cione, the younger brother of the celebrated Andrea, known as Orcagna. The attribution was first proposed orally by Federico Zeri to Professor Miklós Boskovits who subsequently published the painting (see Literature), dating the work to the years 1380-85. In his reconstruction of the dismembered polyptych Boskovits lists the central section which depicts the Madonna and Child Enthroned, painted in collaboration with Giovanni del Biondo, as also formerly in the O'Brien collection and subsequently in the Guido Collection in Florence.(1) Boskovits proposes that the other wings of the polyptych were those offered London, Sotheby's, 26 February 1958, lot 48, along with a panel by another hand.(2)


1. See Boskovits, under Literature, p. 324, reproduced comparative fig. 117.
2. Idem, p. 326. Boskovits lists the other wings as representing Saints Gregory, James and Donnino whereas the Sotheby's catalogue lists them as Saints Vitus, James and Fabian.