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Artist: Francesco dei Franceschi, Italian, Venice, documented 1445–1456
The Flight of the Soldiers Sent to Capture Saint Mamas
ca. 1450
Tempera on panel
47.9 × 35.9 × 2.2 cm (18 7/8 × 14 1/8 × 7/8 in.)
Gift of Louis M. Rabinowitz
1946.72
Status:
On view
Culture:
Italian, Venetian
Period:
15th century
Classification:
Paintings
Provenance:
Mr. J. Annan Bryce Collection, London; William Harrison Woodward, Esq. Collection, London, by 1928; Knoedler & Company, New York (1940); Rabinowitz Collection, Sands Point, Long Island, 1946.
Bibliography:
Dr. Agathoniki D. Tsilipakou and Dr. Christodoulos A. Hadjichristodoulou, The Veneration of Saint Mamas in the Mediterranean: A Traveller, Border Defender Saint, exh. cat. (Thessaloniki: Museum of Byzanine Culture, 2013), 136, fig. 2.
Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1972), 601.
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.