MASTER OF STAFFOLO | MADONNA AND CHILD ENTHRONED WITH SAINT SEBASTIAN, SAINT BERNARDINO OF SIENA AND TWO ANGELS

MASTER OF STAFFOLO
active in the Marche in the second and third quarter of the fifteenth century
MADONNA AND CHILD ENTHRONED WITH SAINT SEBASTIAN, SAINT BERNARDINO OF SIENA AND TWO ANGELS

inscribed on the reverse: All'ill[ustrissi]mo, e r[everendissi]mo / monsig[nor] Vinci presid[ente] della R[everenda] C[amera] A[postolica] / ROMA1
tempera on panel, gold ground
22⅛ by 14¾ in.; 56.3 by 37.5 cm.

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Condition Report:
The following condition report has been provided by Karen Thomas of Thomas Art Conservation LLC., 336 West 37th Street, Suite 830, New York, NY 10018, 212-564-4024, info@thomasartconservation.com, an independent restorer who is not an employee of Sotheby's.

This painting is in sound condition overall. As noted in the lot description, this panel is likely one face of a double-sided processional standard; having thus been a utilitarian devotional object, it is not surprising that the painting shows wear. A normal age-related craquelure traverses the surface of the painting. Retouching has been applied to visually suppress cracks and knit together forms, although in some areas (for example, the Virgin’s red dress) wear along the craquelure has been left untouched. Rubbing in the gold ground base of the Madonna’s elaborate mantle suggests the blue painted pattern is reinforced. It appears that the pattern in the cloth of honor is partially reconstructed and that some degree of regilding has been carried out here. Restored losses adjacent the saints’ heads and extending into the halos suggest framing elements were originally attached to the sides of the panel. The panel displays a mild convex lateral warp but no structural issues.

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Provenance:
Monsignor Giuseppe Vinci (1736-1795), Fermo;

Private collection, England.