Lot 102: Lippo Vanni (active Siena, circa 1340-1375)

Lippo Vanni (active Siena, circa 1340-1375)
The Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints Nicholas and Mary Magdalene and angels
tempera and gold ground on panel
10 5/8 x 7½ in. (27 x 19 cm.)

B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Central Italian and North Italian Schools, London, 1968, I, p. 443, as 'Madonna and Child enthroned with Magdalen, S. Augustine and two Angels'.
C. de Benedictis, La Pittura Senese 1330-1370, Florence, 1979, p. 99, as 'Madonna col Bambino due angeli S.M. Maddelena e S. Agostino'.
S. Dale, Lippo Vanni: style and iconography, Ph.D. dissertation, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 1984, pp. 28-29 and 190-191, no. 17, as 'The Master of the Friedsam Madonna'.
V.M. Schmidt, Painted Piety. Panel Paintings for Personal Devotion in Tuscany, 1250-1400, Florence, 2005, pp. 210, 212, fig. 142.

Conte Mario Pinci, Paris.
Acquired by the family of the present owner in 1960.