The Madonna and Child with Saint Peter and a donor

Details

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.)

Provenance

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.

Literature

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.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

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.

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