Saint Anthony Abbot
Saint Anthony Abbot
- Artist
- Niccolò di Segna
- Artist Dates
- active 1331-1345
- Artist Nationality
- Italian
- Title
- Saint Anthony Abbot
- Date
- c. 1350
- Medium
- tempera and gold on panel
- Dimensions
- 33.7 x 22.2 cm (12-7/8 x 8-1/8 in)
- K Number
- K1224A
- Repository
- Fairfield University Art Museum
- Accession Number
- 2009.01.01
- Notes
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One of two panels in the Kress Collection from a dismembered polyptych: K1224A, K1224B
Provenance
(Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi [1878-1955] Rome Florence); sold to Samuel H. Kress [1863-1955] on 1 September 1939 as Pietro Lorenzetti; gift 1962 to the Museum of Art, Science and Industry, Bridgeport, CT; gift 2002 to the Bellarmine Museum of Art, Fairfield University, no. K1224A.
Catalogue Entry
Niccolò di Segna
Saint Anthony Abbot
K1224A
Bridgeport, Conn., Museum of Art, Science and Industry, Study Collection, since 1962. Wood. A, 12 7/8 x 8 1/8 in. (32.6 x 20.7 cm.); B, 12 3/4 x 8 1/4 in. (32.4 x 21 cm.). Good condition. These two panels, from some dismembered polyptych, are clearly related to the work of Pietro Lorenzetti, to whom they have been attributed by some critics.(1) They probably date from the second half of the fourteenth century. Provenance: Private Collection, Citta di Castello. Contini Bonacossi, Florence. Kress acquisition, 1939.
References
(1) Attributed, in ms. opinions, to Pietro Lorenzetti by G. Fiocco and A. Venturi; to a contemporary of Pietro Lorenzetti, by W. E. Suida; and to the Sienese School, by R. Longhi and F. M. Perkins.