Enthroned Madonna Flanked by Bishop and Female Saint
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Dimensionsh x w: Mått 31,2 x 23 cm
Inventory numberNMH 49/1863
AcqusitionTransferred 1866 from Kongl. Museum (Carl Gustaf Tessin)
Other titlesTitel (sv): Jungfru Maria på tronen, flankerad av en biskop och ett kvinnligt helgon Titel (en): Enthroned Madonna Flanked by Bishop and Female Saint Titel i inventariet (sv): Heliga Jungfrun med barnet, omgifven av Helgon mfl.
DescriptionDescription: Laid down. Inscribed at lower right in pen and brown ink: fra Filippo Lippi fiorentino imitatore dell´opere del Masaccio. Numbered at lower right: 2 (struck out). Inscribed on the mount below: vient du chanoine Victoria (Mariette). Regarded by Bjurström as a typical work by a Veronese artist; in view of the heavy, square proportions of the figures he finally opted for Caroto. Somewhat tentatively, Fiocco suggest Benedetto Diana and Ruggeri agrees, demonstrating the difference in style from known drawings by Caroto in Düsseldorf and comparing our sheet instead with compositons by Diana as the Meeting between Mary and Elizabeth in the Longhi collection and The Madonna´s wedding in the Kress collection. In his opinion a drawing in the Albertina, Vienna, of the Virgin and Joseph worshipping the Christ Child- attributed variously to Giorgione, Romanino and Savoldo- is by the same hand. There are unquestionably definite affinities, particularly in the use of groups of thick, parallel strokes in the hatching. It is always hazardous to compile a graphic oeuvre on the basis of a single definitive work. Tietze somewhat hesitatingly attributes a drawing in the Uffizi to Diana, representing a youthful apostle standing: he points to similar proportions, postures and draperies in Diana´s votive painting from 1486 in the Cá d´Oro in Venice. This drawing, too, differs radically from our sheet and the one in the Albertina. There is a statesque posture in our drawing that recalls paintings by Diana but his figures tend to be elongated in a way which those in our sheet are not. Hence the query after Ruggeri´s attribution. [Bjurström, It. Drawings, cat. no. 36]
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