ATTR FILIPPO LIPPI Oil on Canvas

ATTR FILIPPO LIPPI Oil on Canvas, signature to lower right reads ‘FILIPPO LIPPI’, subject possibly the Virgin Mary with hands together praying while looking down, she has a nimbus around her head, measures 19 x 23 inches, window measures 12 7/8 x 16 7/8 inches, ornate gilt wood frame, surface wear to frame, professionally framed and double matted in linen, exposed canvas to reverse,, not examined out of frame. Please Note: All lots that do not carry established documented provenance nor any past record of auction history record are described in the catalog as attributed to , AFTER, or in the style of. TBS Does not guarantee authenticity of stamps labels and or piece, Lippi was born in Florence in 1406 to Tommaso, a butcher, and his wife. He was orphaned when he was two years old and sent to live with his aunt[1] Mona Lapaccia.[citation needed] Because she was too poor to rear him, she placed him in the neighboring Carmelite convent when he was eight years old. There, he started his