Saint James Major
Saint James Major
- Artist
- Bernardino Fungai
- Artist Dates
- 1460-1516
- Artist Nationality
- Italian
- Title
- Saint James Major
- Date
- 1500-25
- Medium
- tempera on panel
- Dimensions
- 23.5 x 23.2 cm (9-1/4 x 9-1/8 in)
- K Number
- K1163A
- Repository
- Howard University Gallery of Art
- Accession Number
- 61.152.P
- Notes
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Panel was created for the predella of an altarpiece along with K1163B, K1163C, and K1163D
Provenance
(Corsi); sold 1911 to Dan Fellows Platt [1873-1938], Englewood, New Jersey; [1] sold by the Trustees of the Platt Estate to Samuel H. Kress [1863-1955] on 17 March 1939; gift to Howard University Gallery of Art in 1961, Washington, DC, no. 61.152P. [1] See Dan Fellows Platt Papers, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University, NJ; box 2, folder 23, call number C0860.
Catalogue Entry
Bernardino Fungai
Saint James Major
K1163A
Washington, D.C., Howard University, Study Collection (61.152.P, for A and C, and 61.153.P, for B and D), since 1961.(1) Wood. A, 9 1/4 x 9 1/8 in. (23.5 x 23.2 cm.); B, 9 3/8 x 8/7/8 in. (23.8 x 22.6 cm.); C, 9 3/8 x 8 7/8 in. (23.8 x 22.6 cm.); D, 9 1/2 x 8 3/4 in. (24.1 x 22.2 cm.). All in fair condition. Many parallels for the poses, expressions, and general character of these four figures are offered in accepted paintings by Fungai.(2) The less firm modeling here than is normally expected may be due, if not to the hand of an assistant, at least to the subordinate position for which the panels were designed, in the predella of an altarpiece, where they were probably arranged to left and right of a three-quarter-length Christ in the Tomb, like the saints in the predella of Andrea di Niccolo's altarpiece in San Martino, Sarteano.(3) The date of K1163A-D is probably shortly after 1500. Provenance: Dan Fellows Platt, Englewood, N.J. (sold by estate trustee to the following). Kress acquisition, 1939.
References
(1) Catalogue by J. A. Porter, 1961, nos. 2-5: as Fungai. (2) The four panels are attributed to Fungai by B. Berenson (in ms. opinion); they are listed by R. van Marle (Italian Schools of Painting, vol. XVI, 1937, p. 484) as by or attributed to Fungai. (3) Altarpiece reproduced by van Marle, ibid., fig. 258.