Saint Prosper (A Bishop Saint)
Saint Prosper (A Bishop Saint)
- Artist
- Follower of Jacopo del Casentino
- Artist Dates
- 1279-c. 1358
- Artist Nationality
- Italian
- Title
- Saint Prosper (A Bishop Saint)
- Date
- early to mid 14th century
- Medium
- tempera and gold leaf on panel
- Dimensions
- 64.8 x 28 cm (25-1/2 x 11 in)
- K Number
- K1138
- Repository
- Staten Island Museum at Snug Harbor
- Accession Number
- A1961.17.2
- Notes
Provenance
Chiesa di San Prospero, Cambiano, Italy. Mr. Zink, London,by 1923. (Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi [1878-1955], Rome-Florence); sold to Samuel H. Kress [1863-1955] on 16 September 1938 ; gift to the Staten Island Museum in 1961, no. A1961.17.2
Catalogue Entry
Follower of Jacopo del Casentino
Saint Prosper (A Bishop Saint)
K1138
Staten Island, N.Y., Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences, Study Collection (61.17.2), since 1961. Wood. 25 1/2 x 11 in. (64.8 x 28 cm.). Good condition except for slight damages throughout. Undoubtedly from the mid-fourteenth-century milieu of Jacopo del Casentino,(1) K1138 is believed to have been the extreme left panel in a five-part polyptych, of which a Madonna byJacopo del Casentino in the Vatican Pinacoteca was the middle panel and three saints now in Cambiano, attributed to Jacopo and workshop, were the other side panels.(2) K1138 is the only one of the five companion panels that has not been truncated at the top. The possible original location of the polyptych in the Church of San Prospero, Cambiano, has suggested the identification of the bishop saint represented in K1138 as St. Prosper). Provenance: Mr. Zink, London (1923). Contini Bonacossi, Florence. Kress acquisition, 1938 –exhibited: Traveling Exhibition, University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz., Apr. – Sept. 1960, as Florentine School, fourteenth century.
References
(1) Attributed to Jacopo del Casentino by G. Fiocco, R. Longhi, F. M. Perkins, W. E. Suida, A. Venturi (in ms. opinions), and B. Berenson (Italian Pictures ... Florentine School, vol. I, 1963, p. 102); to a follower of Jacopo del Casentino by R. Offner (Corpus of Florentine Painting, sec. III, vol. II, pt. II, 1930, p. 174) and by L. Berti (in Bollettillo d'Arte, vol. XXXVII, 1952, pp. 55 f.). (2) For a reconstruction of the polyptych see Berti (lac. cit. in note 1, above) and Offner (op. cit., sec. III, vol. VII, 1957, pp. 116 ff.). The Vatican Madonna is reproduced in Offner's sec. III, vol. II, pt. II, pl. LV, and the three Cambiano panels in his sec. III, vol. VII, pl. XXXIX. (3) See Berti, loc. cit. in note 1, above.