42 - Apollonio DI GIOVANNI (Florence, 1415 or 1417–1465)

Apollonio DI GIOVANNI (Florence, 1415 or 1417–1465) Tournament Scene Oil and gold on panel, fragment of a cassone (Restorations) Tournament scene, oil and gold on panel, by A. di Giovanni 17.12 x 14.56 in. 43.5 x 37 cm Provenance: Given by Giovanni Rucellai (1403–1481) to his daughter Caterina on the occasion of her marriage to Piero di Francesco Vettori; Collection of Pier Francesco Vettori (1464–?), Florence; Collection of the Villa della Magia, near Florence, according to the catalog of Joseph Toscanelli’s sale; Collection of Knight Joseph Toscanelli, member of parliament, Pisa; His sale, Florence, April 16, 1883, lot 57; Anonymous sale; London, Sotheby’s, June 30, 1965, lot 108 (attributed to the 15th-century Florentine School, presented as having belonged to the Pucci family); Acquired by Madame Georges Poncet from Madame Jacqueline Fulcrand, an antique dealer in Bessan, in the late 1960s; Then passed down to her daughter; Private collection, Paris Bibliography: Ellen Callmann, Apollonio di Giovanni, Oxford, 1974, pp. 61–62, no. 20, ill. pls. 117–118 Paul Watson, “Apollonio di Giovanni and Ancient Athens,” Bulletin of the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, XXXVII, 1, 1979–80, p. 16, ill. 14 Apollonio DI GIOVANNI (Florence, 1415 or 1417–1465) 43.5 x 37 cm