Martyrdom of Saint Stephen
Martyrdom of Saint Stephen
- Artist
- Lorenzo di Niccolò
- Artist Dates
- active 1392/1411
- Artist Nationality
- Italian
- Title
- Martyrdom of Saint Stephen
- Date
- c. 1400
- Medium
- tempera and gold on panel
- Dimensions
- 26.4 x 50.5 cm (10-3/8 x 19-7/8 in)
- K Number
- K1016
- Repository
- Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts
- Accession Number
- 1939.002
- Notes
Provenance
(Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi [1878-1955] Rome-Florence); sold to Samuel H. Kress [1863-1955] on 1 June 1936; gift 1938 to the Arkansas Arts Center, no. 1.39.
Catalogue Entry
Lorenzo di Niccolò
Martyrdom of Saint Stephen
K1016
Little Rock, Ark., Arkansas Arts Center(1) (1.39), since 1938. Wood. 10 3/8 X 19 7/8 in. (26.4 X 50.5 cm.). Good condition. In figure types and in the details of landscape and architecture this predella panel is similar to the St. Nicholas predella panel by Lorenzo di Niccolò in the Vatican;(2) but the more hasty, less precise execution of K1016 makes its attribution to the same master uncertain.(3) It probably dates from about 1400. Provenance: Contini Bonacossi, Florence. Kress acquisition, 1936.
References
(1) Formerly the Fine Arts Club of Arkansas. (2) See note to K1093 (p. 44, above). (3) In ms. opinions, K1016 is attributed to Lorenzo di Niccolò by G. Fiocco, R. Longhi, R. van Marle, W. E. Suida, and A. Venturi; to an artist close to Lorenzo di Niccolò by F. M. Perkins. It is attributed tentatively to Cenni di Francesco di Ser Cenni by B. Berenson (Italian Pictures ... Florentine School, vol. I, 1963, p. 47).