A Unique Devotional Work by Mariotto di Nardo

Published on 31 March 2023, by Caroline Legrand

Auction on 03 April 2023 - 14:00 (CEST) - 32, place des Lices - 35000 Rennes

This intensely sensitive late 14^th-century painting has echoes of the Franciscan order. The work by Florentine artist Mariotto di Nardo comes from a Breton collection.

Mariotto di Nardo (active between 1394 and 1424), Virgin and Child with St. Anthony... A Unique Devotional Work by Mariotto di Nardo

Mariotto di Nardo (active between 1394 and 1424), Virgin and Child with St. Anthony Abbot, St. Catherine, St. Julian and St. Lucy, tempera with gold background on wood panel, upper section in three-point perspective, 81 x 44 cm/31.9 x 17.3 in.
Estimate: €40,000/60,000

Until recently, this important painting was surrounded by Renaissance furniture and paintings dating from the 15th to 17th centuries in a house in the Brittany village of Parigné, near Fougères. As well as this devotional panel bought around 2000, Dr. Jean Lambert and his wife also owned The Wedding Gifts attributed to Pieter Bruegel III (“Hell” or the Younger Bruegel), also up for auction here (€20,000/30,000). Having no heir, the collectors decided to auction four paintings from their estate…

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