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PRL ( or PPL)*** Italian school 1517. The birth of the Virgin. Unparqueted linden panel with five boards (butterfly reinforcements). Height : 208.5 - W. : 143 cm (missing and lifted) Provenance: Catalan collection. The subject of the Virgin Birth, often depicted during the Renaissance, was used to describe a family interior scene, unlike the Nativity of Christ, which is set in a grotto. The best-known examples, predating our panel, are those by Domenico Ghirlandaio (circa 1490) and Andrea del Sarto (1514) in Florence. The antique bed with scrolled headboards is topped by a canopy of green curtains. Saint Anne has just is supported by her husband Joachim and maids. Below, in the foreground, we discover Mary in a scrolled cradle, with the midwife unveiling her; a rolled-up diaper has fallen to the floor. She is surrounded by two standing canephore girls, directly inspired by the caryatids painted by Raphael and his workshop on the base of the Heliodorus room in the Vatican (1511-1514). Dated 1517, this large altarpiece is thus in line with the latest contemporary Roman creations and displays the characteristics of early Mannerism: absence of perspective, horror vacui, borrowing from Raphael's models. The olive-green tone is found in several paintings by the master and Giulio Romano from the same period. The typology of the figures also reveals a stylistic relationship with two of their pupils: Giovan Francesco Penni (known as Il Fatore) and, above all, Raffaellino del Colle . Expert : Cabinet Turquin, Mr. Stéphane Pinta.

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PRL ( or PPL)*** Italian school 1517. The birth of the Virgin. Unparqueted linden panel with five boards (butterfly reinforcements). Height : 208.5 - W. : 143 cm (missing and lifted) Provenance: Catalan collection. The subject of the Virgin Birth, often depicted during the Renaissance, was used to describe a family interior scene, unlike the Nativity of Christ, which is set in a grotto. The best-known examples, predating our panel, are those by Domenico Ghirlandaio (circa 1490) and Andrea del Sarto (1514) in Florence. The antique bed with scrolled headboards is topped by a canopy of green curtains. Saint Anne has just is supported by her husband Joachim and maids. Below, in the foreground, we discover Mary in a scrolled cradle, with the midwife unveiling her; a rolled-up diaper has fallen to the floor. She is surrounded by two standing canephore girls, directly inspired by the caryatids painted by Raphael and his workshop on the base of the Heliodorus room in the Vatican (1511-1514). Dated 1517, this large altarpiece is thus in line with the latest contemporary Roman creations and displays the characteristics of early Mannerism: absence of perspective, horror vacui, borrowing from Raphael's models. The olive-green tone is found in several paintings by the master and Giulio Romano from the same period. The typology of the figures also reveals a stylistic relationship with two of their pupils: Giovan Francesco Penni (known as Il Fatore) and, above all, Raffaellino del Colle . Expert : Cabinet Turquin, Mr. Stéphane Pinta.

Estimate 6 000 - 8 000 EUR

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