Lot 110: The Madonna and Child with Saint Peter and a donor

Girolamo da Santacroce (Santa Croce, Bergamo 1480/1485-after 1556 Venice)
The Madonna and Child with Saint Peter and a donor
oil on panel
27¾ x 38¼ in. (70.5 x 97.1 cm.)

B. Berenson, Pittura italiana del Rinascimento. La scuola veneta, 1958, I, p. 163, pl. 576, as an early work.
F. Heinemann, Giovanni Bellini e i Belliniani, Venice, 1962, p. 163, fig. 494.
B. della Chiesa and E. Baccheschi, 'I pittori di Santacroce', in I pittori bergamaschi. Il Cinquecento, II, Bergamo, 1976, p. 42, no. 13, as a work of uncertain attribution.

Max Alsberg, Berlin.
Paul Graupe; sale, Berlin, 29-30 January 1934, lot 2.
Italy, private collection.
Restituted to the heirs of Max Alsberg, October 2007.

A prominent and respected criminal lawyer in Berlin during the Weimar Republic, Dr. Max Alsberg (1877-1933) was also renowned as a legal reformer and writer.

We are grateful to Professor Peter Humfrey, who has also suggested a possible attribution to Francesco Bissolo (Treviso c. 1470/5-1554 Venice) on the basis of photographs.