Lot 2: Pietro di Domenico da Montepulciano , documented 1418 - 1422 Madonna of Humility tempera on panel, gold ground, curved top

tempera on panel, gold ground, curved top

measurements note 60.8 by 50 cm.; 23 7/8 by 19 5/8 in.

Milan, Palazzo Serbelloni, Gilberto Algranti, Antologia di dipinti di cinque secoli, 5 – 30 May, 1971.

Advertisment, Pantheon, vol. XXIX, July/August 1971, p. 346

With V. Frascione, Florence;
With Gilberto Algranti, Milan, 1971;
Anonymous sale, Milan, Finarte, 16 October 1971, lot 33;
Anonymous sale, Rome, Christie's, 4 June 2001, lot 308, where acquired by the present owner.

We are grateful to Everett Fahy for endorsing the attribution to Domenico da Montepulciano following inspection of the original. The first record of this little known painter comes in the form of his signed and dated (1418) polyptych in the baptistry of the Duomo in Osimo, a town in the eastern central regions of the Marches. The only other dated work, a polyptych in the Pinacoteca di Recanati, is from 1422. The artist takes his name from the small town of Montepulciano in the municipality of Ancona, rather than its namesake to the north of Siena.