Property of THE J. PAUL GETTY MUSEUM
BENVENUTO DI GIOVANNI* (1436-c.1518)

Details
BENVENUTO DI GIOVANNI* (1436-c.1518)

The Nativity, with the Annunciation and the Shepherds in the background
tempera on panel
22¼ x 15¾in. (56.5 x 40cm.)
Provenance
Sir Philip Burne-Jones, Bart., England, 1917 (according to the Untermyer Collection sale catalogue)
with Duveen, New York, 1923
Samuel Untermyer, New York; sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, May 10-11, 1940, lot 48, as Girolamo di Benvenuto ($1,500 to Duveen on behalf of Getty)
J. Paul Getty, Sutton Place, Guildford, Surrey, by whom donated to the museum in 1970
Literature
O. Sirén and M.W. Brockwell, Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Italian Primitives in aid of the American War Relief, New York, Kleinberger Galleries, 1917, p. 170, as Girolamo di Benvenuto
J.P. Getty and E. Le Vane, Collector's Choice. A Chronical of an Artistic Odyssey through Europe, 1955, p. 212, as Girolamo di Benvenuto
W.R. Valentiner and P. Wescher, The J. Paul Getty Museum Guidebook, 2nd ed., 1956, p. 19, as Girolamo di Benvenuto
J.P. Getty, The Joys of Collecting, 1965, p. 88, illustrated
B. Fredericksen, Handbook of the Paintings in the J. Paul Getty Museum, 1965, p. 15, pl. 9, as Girolamo di Benvenuto
B. Fredericksen and D.D. Davisson, Benvenuto di Giovanni, Girolamo di Benvenuto: Their Altarpieces in the J. Paul Getty Museum, The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal, 1966, no. 2, pp. 17-18
B. Fredericksen and D.D. Davisson, Benvenuto di Giovanni, Girolamo di Benvenuto: Their Altarpieces in the J. Paul Getty Museum and a Summary Catalogue of Their Paintings in America, 1966, pp. 6, 17-18, 35, fig. 5
B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Central Italian and North Italian Schools, I, 1968, p. 187, as Girolamo di Benvenuto
B. Fredericksen and F. Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, 1972, p. 26
B. Fredericksen, Catalogue of the Paintings in the J. Paul Getty Museum, 1972, pp. 16-17, no. 19, illustrated
B. Fredericksen, The J. Paul Getty Museum, 1975, p. 83
M.C. Bandera, Variazioni ai Cataloghi Berensoniani di Benvenuto di Giovanni, Scritti di storia dell'arte in onore di Ugo Procacci, 1, 1977, p. 312

Lot Essay

A replica of the present lot from the Platt collection, Englewood and subsequently with Eugene Thaw, New York in the 1970s, was exhibited at Kleinberger Galleries, New York in 1917 (Sirén and Brockwell, loc. cit.)