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Saint Peter

Artist Bartolo di Fredi Cini (Italian, ca. 1330 - 1410)
Formerly attributed to Bartolo di Fredi (Italian, 1353 - 1410)
Date1395/1400
MediumTempera and gold leaf on wood panel
DimensionsUnframed: 70 7/8 × 19 11/16 × 4 inches (180.02 × 50.01 × 10.16 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number50-13
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Not on view
Collections
DescriptionA haloed St. Peter stands full length, turned to the left, within a gilded, ogival-shaped field. Dressed in a violet robe and orange mantle, he holds a key in each hand. Above in each of the spandrels is a haloed angel. In the horizontal frieze along the top are three bearded monastic figures in quatrefoil frames. On the dark green ground are various small flowers.Exhibition History

N/A

Provenance

W. D. Tyler, Riverdale, New York, by 1943 [1];

Purchased at Silo’s auction, New York, September 1, 1943, by Abraham Adler, New York, on joint account with Raphael Stora and Company, New York, stock no. C-90-27, 1943-November 5, 1946 [2];

Purchased from Adler and Stora by Jacques Seligmann and Co., New York, stock no. 7419, November 5, 1946-1950;

Purchased from Jacques Seligmann and Co., through Harold Woodbury Parsons, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1950.

NOTES:

[1] Tyler is listed as a former owner of the painting on Stora’s invoice to Jacques Seligmann and Co. Archives of American Art, Washington, D.C., Jacques Seligmann Papers, Purchase Receipts and Documentation, Box 290, Folder 9.

[2] Raphael Stora told Germain Seligmann that the painting had been included in an auction at Silo’s on September 1, 1943, where it was bought by Adler. No catalogue for this sale exists. Archives of American Art, Jacques Seligmann Papers, Note to records, November 7, 1942. Stora’s stock number appears on a stock card in the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Stora Art Galleries stock sheets.

Published References

Lucille Elizabeth Bush, Bartolo di Fredi (Ph.D diss., Columbia University, 1947), (repro.), erroneously as by a “follower of Bartolo di Fredi.”


“Enriching U.S. museums,” ARTNews 49 (1950): 26, (repro.), as St. Peter.


“Masterpiece of the Month,” Gallery News (The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts) vol. 17 (December 1950): unpaginated, (repro.), as Saint Peter.


Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 62, 262, (repro.), as St. Peter.


Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: A List of the Principal Artists and their Works with an Index of Places; Central Italian and North Italian Schools in Three Volumes, vol. 1 (Oxford: Phaidon, 1968), as Panel of polyptych: S. Peter; above, two Angels and three Heads of Saints (companion to Quimper).


Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972), 16, 440, 589.


Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 1, Art of the Occident, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 78, (repro.), as St. Peter.  


Valerie L. Wainwright, Andrea Vanni and Bartolo di Fredi: Sienese Painters in Their Social Context (Ph.D diss., University of London, University College, 1978), 161, 172, 183-86.


Christina de Benedictis, La Pittura Senese 1330-1370 (Florence: Salimbeni Libreria Editrice, 1979), 80, as S. Pietro, angeli e tre teste di santi (pannello di polittico, con Quimper).


Gaudenz Freuler, “Bartolo di Fredis Altar für die Annunziata-Kapelle in S. Francesco in Montalcino,” Pantheon 43 (1985): 26, 33, (repro.).


Henk W. Van Os, “Tradition and Innovation in Some Altarpieces by Bartolo di Fredi,” The Art Bulletin 67, no. 1 (1985): 53-54, (repro.), as Saint Peter.


Gaudenz Freuler and Valerie Wainwright, “On Some Altarpieces by Bartolo di Fredi,” The Art Quarterly 68, no. 2 (1986): 327, as Saint Peter.


Henk W. Van Os, “Reply: On Some Altarpieces by Bartolo di Fredi,” The Art Quarterly 68, no. 2 (1986): 328, as Saint Peter.


Gaudenz Freuler, “Die Malavolti-Kappelle des Bartolo di Fredi und Paolo di Giovanni Fei in S. Domenico in Siena,” Pantheon 45 (1987): 55n22.


Patricia Harpring, Bartolo di Fredi and Sienese Painting (Ph.D diss., Indiana University, 1988), 137, 139, 140n160, 141, 177nXXIII. F., (repro.), as St. Peter.  


Esther Moench, “Acquisitions: Avignon, musée du Petit Palais, Bartolo di Fredi, Saint Jean l’Évangéliste,” La revue du Louvre et des musées de France 39, no. 1 (1989): 85, (repro.), as saint Pierre.


Peter Anselm Riedl and Max Seidel, eds., Die Kirchen von Siena, vol. 2, Oratorio della Carità-S. Domenico (Munich: Bruckmann, 1992): 751n280.


André Cariou, Le musée des beaux-arts, Quimper (Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1993), 27.


Patricia Harpring, The Sienese Trecento Painter, Bartolo di Fredi (Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1993), 133n101, 133n102, 137-38, 159, (repro.).


Esther Moench, ed., Or et azur: Autour d’une œuvre de Bartolo di Fredi, exh. cat. (Avignon: Musée du Petit Palais, 1993), 23n4-7, 26, 30, 34, 85-86, 88, 90, (repro.).


Saur allgemeines Künstlerlexikon: Die bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker, vol. 7 (Munich: Saur, 1993), 268.


Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 137, (repro.), as Saint Peter.


Gaudenz Freuler, Bartolo di Fredi Cini: Ein Beitrag zur sienesischen Malerei des 14. Jahrhunderts (Disentis, Switzerland: Desertina, 1994), 319, 337, 341, 381-91, 495-98, (repro.).


Eliot W. Rowlands, The Collections of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: Italian Paintings, 1300-1800 (Kansas City, MO: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 69-75, (repro.), as Saint Peter.

Alice Thorson, “Uncover the Painting, Discover the Past: Restoring Artwork Can Be a Touchy Job for This Conservator,” Kansas City Star (June 9, 1998): E1, as St. Peter.


Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 41, (repro.), as Saint Peter.

“Cini: (1) Bartolo di Fredi Cini,” Oxford Art Online (accessed June 30, 2014): unpaginated, as S. Peter.



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