Desco da Parto with the Amorous Hunt

Artist, formerly attributed to: Master of Charles of Durazzo (possibly Francesco di Michele) (Italian, active 1381–1400)
Artist: Florentine School(?), ca. 1410

ca. 1410

European Art

Not on view
Medium

Tempera and gold on panel

Dimensions

19 1/16 × 19 3/4 in. (48.4 × 50.2 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Hannah D. and Louis M. Rabinowitz

Accession Number

1959.15.8

Geography

Made in Florence, Italy

Culture

Italian, Florence

Period

15th century

Classification

Paintings

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Provenance
Rabinowitz Collection, Sands Point, Long Island, before 1945-1959. Probably purchased by Rabinowitz from E.A. Silberman Galleries, NY, whose label was formerly on the back of the panel.
Bibliography
  • Cecilia De Carli, I deschi da parto: E la pittura del primo Rinascimento Toscano (Turin: Umberto Allemandi, 1997), 23, 72–73, no. 5
  • Jerzy Miziolek, Soggetti classici sui cassoni fiorentini alla vigilia del Rinascimento (Warsaw: Instytut Sztuki Polskiej Akademii Nauk, 1996), 95
  • Miklós Boskovits, "Il Maestro di Incisa Scapaccino e alcuni problemi di pittura tardogotica in Italia," Paragone 42, no. 501 (November 1991), 47n14
  • Mira Friedman, "The Falcon and the Hunt," Moshe Lazar and Norris J. Lacy. The Poetics of Love in the Middle Ages (1989), 165–69
  • Paul F. Watson, The Garden of Love in Tuscan Art of the Early Renaissance (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Art Alliance, 1979), 93–95, 105, pl. 78
  • Everett Fahy, "Review of Early Italian Paintings in the Yale University Art Gallery," Art Bulletin 56, no. 2 (June 1974), 283–285
  • Luisa Vertova, "The New Yale Catalogue," Burlington Magazine 115 (March 1973), 159
  • Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1972), 222, 601
  • Charles Seymour Jr., Early Italian Paintings in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1970), 135–37, no. 93
  • Charles Seymour Jr., The Rabinowitz Collection of European Paintings (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1961), 20–21, 54
  • "Recent Gifts and Purchases, February 22–December 31, 1959," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 26, no. 1 (December 1960), 53
  • Louis M. Rabinowitz, Rabinowitz Collection (New York: The Twin Editions, 1945), 19
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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Object/Work type

human figures (visual works)

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