The Master of the Squarcialupi Codex (active Florence c. 1410-1415)

The Crucifixion

Details

The Master of the Squarcialupi Codex (active Florence c. 1410-1415)
The Crucifixion
tempera and gold on panel
24 x 16½ in. (61 x 42 cm.)

Provenance

with Douwes, Amsterdam, 1920.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 9 January 1980, lot 76, as 'Bartolomeo di Fruosino'.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 18 January 1983, lot 122, as 'Bartolomeo di Fruosino', where acquired by the family of the present owner and by descent.

Exhibited

Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Italiaansche Kunst in Nederlandsch Bezit, 1 July-1 October 1934, no. 243, as 'Lorenzo Monaco'.

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Lot Essay

The present painting relates to a group of five or six cutout crucifixes, formerly attributed to Bartolomeo di Fruosino, which are now given to the Master of the Squarcialupi Codex, a follower of Lorenzo Monaco who worked at Santa Maria dei Angeli, Florence, in the early 1410s. For more on this artist, see Luciano Bellosi, 'Due note in margine a Lorenzo Monaco miniatore: il "Maestro del Codice Squarcialupi" e il poco probabile Matteo Torelli,' in Studi di storia dell'arte in memoria di Mario Rotili, Naples, 1984, I, pp. 307-14.

We are grateful to Everett Fahy for providing the attribution, upon first-hand inspection.

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