Lot No. 552


Giovanni di Tano Fei


Giovanni di Tano Fei - Old Master Paintings

(active in Florence 1385–c. 1420)
The Madonna and Child, Saints Anthony Abbot, Julius, Margaret and Catherine of Alexandria,
tempera on panel, gold ground, 115 x 57.5 cm, shaped top, in a tarbernacle frame

Provenance:
European private collection

In an article published in the “Bulletin of Art” in 1964, Federico Zeri identified a group of panel paintings by an - at that time - anonymous artist working in Florence in the late 14th, early 15th Centuries with a polyptych in the Metropolitan Museum, New York and named the artist the Master of the Altarpiece of the Metropolitan Museum no. 50.229.2. Miklos Boskovits renamed the artist as the Master of 1399 taking the date from that on the Madonna and Child enthroned with six Angels in the Serrestori Hospital in Figline Valdarno. Among the works assigned to the Master of 1399 was a panel of Santa Brigida. This painting was found to have been documented as being commissioned by Giovanni di Tano Fei for the Monastery of Santa Brigida al Paradiso. The identification of the Master of 1399 with Giovanni di Tano Fei, even in absence of other documentary evidence, appears to be accepted.
Giovanni di Tano Fei was a member of the Physicians and Apothecaries guild from 1386 and is documented until the early fifteenth century (see E. Merciai, The probable Giovanni di Tano Fei: an odd mouthpiece of the international gothic in Florence, in: “Arte Cristiania” 1993, pp. 79-91).
Initially influenced by the work of Orcagna, as is apparent in the altarpiece of Santa Brigida, Giovanni di Tano Fei also seems to have been influenced by Agnolo Gaddi.

We are grateful to Professor Alessandro Tomei for confirming the attribution on the basis of a digital photograph.

17.04.2013 - 18:00

Estimate:
EUR 140,000.- to EUR 180,000.-

Giovanni di Tano Fei


(active in Florence 1385–c. 1420)
The Madonna and Child, Saints Anthony Abbot, Julius, Margaret and Catherine of Alexandria,
tempera on panel, gold ground, 115 x 57.5 cm, shaped top, in a tarbernacle frame

Provenance:
European private collection

In an article published in the “Bulletin of Art” in 1964, Federico Zeri identified a group of panel paintings by an - at that time - anonymous artist working in Florence in the late 14th, early 15th Centuries with a polyptych in the Metropolitan Museum, New York and named the artist the Master of the Altarpiece of the Metropolitan Museum no. 50.229.2. Miklos Boskovits renamed the artist as the Master of 1399 taking the date from that on the Madonna and Child enthroned with six Angels in the Serrestori Hospital in Figline Valdarno. Among the works assigned to the Master of 1399 was a panel of Santa Brigida. This painting was found to have been documented as being commissioned by Giovanni di Tano Fei for the Monastery of Santa Brigida al Paradiso. The identification of the Master of 1399 with Giovanni di Tano Fei, even in absence of other documentary evidence, appears to be accepted.
Giovanni di Tano Fei was a member of the Physicians and Apothecaries guild from 1386 and is documented until the early fifteenth century (see E. Merciai, The probable Giovanni di Tano Fei: an odd mouthpiece of the international gothic in Florence, in: “Arte Cristiania” 1993, pp. 79-91).
Initially influenced by the work of Orcagna, as is apparent in the altarpiece of Santa Brigida, Giovanni di Tano Fei also seems to have been influenced by Agnolo Gaddi.

We are grateful to Professor Alessandro Tomei for confirming the attribution on the basis of a digital photograph.


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Auction: Old Master Paintings
Auction type: Saleroom auction
Date: 17.04.2013 - 18:00
Location: Vienna | Palais Dorotheum
Exhibition: 06.04. - 17.04.2013