Lot 38: ZANINO DI PIETRO

ZANINO DI PIETRO ACTIVE IN VENICE CIRCA 1390 - AFTER 1429 MADONNA AND CHILD oil on panel, curved top, gold ground 51.7 by 23.1 cm.; 20 3/8 by 9 1/8 in.

With Clausen Art Rooms, New York (according to a label on the reverse).

The attribution is due to Dott. Andrea de Marchi, to whom we are grateful. Dott. de Marchi has dated this work to the early 1420s and compares the pose of the Christ child here with that in Zanino's work from circa 1415-20 in the Pinacoteca nazionale di Ferrara, in which Christ is shown naked, draped in a transparent veil by his mother, his head however angled upwards towards God the father (see D. Benati, in La Pinacoteca nazionale di Ferrara. Catalogo generale, Bologna 1992, pp. 81-82, cat. no. 86).