Untitled Triptych

Item

Creator

Don Silvestro dei Gherarducci (Italian, Florentine, 1339-1399)

Title

Untitled Triptych

Description

Tempera on panel
15 ½ x 3 ¾ in. (left wing); 14 ½ x 3 ¼ in. (right wing); 17 ½ x 9 in. (center panel)
(c. 39.37 x 9.525 cm. (left wing); 36.83 x 8.255 cm. (right wing); 44.45 x 22.86 cm. (center panel)
Inscribed: ‘SANTA MARIA MATERDEI (DRTI?) ONORIS’ (lower edge)

Provenance

Count Griffin Collection, possibly to 1952. [Possibly Pierre D’Atri (Galerie d’Atri) Collection, Paris, by 1948, sold 1952 to]; [Possibly Newhouse Galleries, New York, and Frederick Mont (Mondschein) (1894-1994), New York]. Private American Collector, from 1952, consigned before December 1964 to; [Newhouse Galleries, New York, sold April 1965 to]; Arthur William Sidney Herrington (1891-1970) and Nell C. Herrington (1891-1966), Indianapolis, Indiana, by inheritance to their son; Arthur Clarke Herrington (1931-2018), Maryland, bequest 2018 to; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.[1]

[1] Refer to the curatorial/object file.

Auction Catalogues

F. Zeri, 'Italian Primitives at Messrs Wildenstein,' The
Burlington Magazine, 1965, p. 255, no. 19, fig. 57.
F. Zeri and R. Offner, An exhibition of Italian panels and
manuscripts from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, in
honor of Richard Offner, (exhibition catalogue), Hartford,
1965, p. 16, no. 11.
M. Boskovits, Pittura Fiorentina alla vigilia del Rinascimento
1370-1400, 1975, p. 422.
R. Offner, Corpus of Florentine Painting, New York, 1981,
p. 32.
M. Eisenberg, Lorenzo Monaco, Princeton, 1989, pp. 52-
53, 168, no. 27.
G. Freuler, Tendencies of gothic in Florence Don Silvestro dei
Gherarducci, Florence, 1997, pp. 424-425.

Exhibitions

1965 – Wadsworth Atheneum. An Exhibition of Italian Panels and Manuscripts from the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, in Honor of Richard Offner. 9 April to 6 June 1965. Hartford: Wadsworth Atheneum, 1965, pp. 16-7, no. 11, illus.

1968 – Indianapolis, IN, Art Association of Indianapolis, Herron Museum of Art, The Nell Clarke Herrington Memorial Exhibition, 7-28 April 1968, Bulletin/Catalogue, Spring 1968, pp. 77, 79, illus.

1968 – Pine Bluff, Arkansas, Civic and Cultural Center, Selections from the Herrington Collection, Inaugural Exhibition of the Arts Museum, 3-19 May 1968, no. 1, illus.

References

Zeri, Federico. “Italian Primitives at Messrs Wildenstein.” The Burlington Magazine Vol. 107, no. 746 (May 1965), pp. 252-6. [Gherarducci: ill. p. 254, fig. 57, discussed p. 255].

American Association of Museums. “Italian Primitives in Hartford.” Museum News Vol.43, no. 9 (May 1965), p. 7, illus.

Wagstaff, Jr., Samuel J. “Hartford glimpses the pre-Renaissance.” ARTNews Vol. 64, no. 3 (May 1965), pp. 33-4. [Gherarducci discussed: p. 34.]

Galleria degli Uffizi. Dipinti Salvati dalla piena dell’Arno: 4 Novembre 1966. Firenze: Tipografia Giuntina, 1966, p. 8.

Boskovits, Miklòs. Pittura Fiorentina alla vigilia del Rinascimento: 1370-1400. Firenze: Edam, 1975, p. 422.

Offner, Richard. A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting: A Legacy of Attributions. Supplement. Edited by Hayden B.J. Maginnis. New York: Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, Distributed by J.J. Augustin Publisher, Locust Valley, NY, 1981, p. 32.

Eisenberg, Marvin. Lorenzo Monaco, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989, pp. 52-3, note 27, p. 168.

Kanter, Laurence, et. al. Painting and Illumination in Early Renaissance Florence 1300-1450, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Distributed by Harry N. Abrams, 1994, p. 168.

Freuler, Gaudenze. Tendencies of Gothic in Florence: Don Silvestro dei Gherarducci, ed. Miklós Boskovits, Section IV, Volume VII (Part II), A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting
by Richard Offner with Klara Steinweg, continued under the Direction of Miklós Boskovitz and Mina Gregori. Florence: Giunto Gruppo Editoriale, 1997, pp. 296, 311, 424-5, pl. XLVI.
NB: The bibliography for the whole series appears in a separate volume: Tripps, Johannes. Tendencies of Gothic in Florence: Andrea Bonaiuti, ed. Miklós Boskovitz, Section IV, Volume VII (Part I), A Critical Corpus…. Florence: Giunto Gruppo Editoriale, 1996, pp. 65-87.

Fondazione Federico Zeri, Università di Bologna, Fototeca. As: Silvestro dei Gherarducci, Madonna con Bambino, San Francesco d’Assisi, San Giuliano l’Ospedaliere e angelo annunciante, San Giovanni Evangelista, San Giovanni Battista e Maria Vergine Annunciata.

Status

Under research