Exceptional oil on poplar panel painting of considerable pictorial quality, so much so that it can be attributed to the close entourage of Fra Bartolomeo della Porta, who led the Florentine School of the convent of San Marco, a flourishing artistic workshop of Dominican friars.
It is highly probable that this panel was used in a more complex pictorial composition, and therefore placed at the top and opposite another panel depicting the Annunciation Virgin, given the particular vanishing point of the representation, in bird's-eye view.
This model could have been executed around 1520 by Della Porta's most faithful assistants and heirs, namely Fra Paolino da Pistoia or Giovanni Antonio Sogliani, who were often authorized to use the master's preparatory drawings, and it is possible that this was also the case.
The figure of the angel directly recalls the aesthetic canons of Fra Bartolomeo, imbued with attention to detail and laden with solemn devotion, the same ones passed down in the school of San Marco at the beginning of the 16th century; moreover, the chromaticity is closely related to the works of Fra Paolino.
Another possibility is that the aforementioned painters belonging to the school of San Marco in the early decades of the 16th century, including the master Della Porta himself, may have created the painting in question as a preparatory study.
Upon request, we can obtain an expert appraisal of the panel from an expert in Florentine Renaissance painting.
The panel is in perfect condition and shows only brief and minor retouches under UV light. The very fine wood of this panel makes it a unique and precious object.
Panel dimensions only: 36cm x 48cm.
20th-century Renaissance-style frame, 8cm wide.
We attach a certificate of authenticity to the sale.
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