15th century VALENCIAN school, entourage of Joan... Lot 5

15th century VALENCIAN school, entourage of Joan REXACH Altarpiece of the Virgin and Child between St. Michael, St. John the Baptist, St. Nicholas and St. Christopher, surmounted by the Trinity Painted with a gold ground on a five-board pine panel, reinforced with strips of canvas and oak twine, four crosspieces. 158 x 112 cm (Old restorations) Framed by carved and gilded wood pinnacles, joined by arcatures. The predella: the dead Christ between the Virgin Mary and Saint John, Saint Peter and Saint Paul. A painted wood overhang (dust guard) surrounds the panel face on three sides: an unidentified heraldic crest flanked by the Virgin and the angel Gabriel of the Annunciation. The figures on either side of the pediment are Saint Gregory and Saint Lucia. In the upper lateral sections, mid-body figures include St. Augustine on the right and St. Jerome on the left. The vertical sections feature the effigies of Saint Barbara and Saint Ursula on the right, and Saint Catherine and Saint Onuphre on the left. Provenance : - Collection of Count Pierre de Demandolx-Dedons, Marseille (probably acquired in the early 1920s); - Always in the family. Bibliography: - L. Gillet, Les primitifs français, Marseille, 1941, p. 30, reproduced (École d'Avignon XVe siècle) ; - C. R. Post, A History of Spanish Painting, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1941, volume VIII,- PartII, p. 709, , repr. p.712, fig. 338 (15th-century Valencian school, Rexach entourage) ; - J. A. Gaya Nuno, La pintura espanola fuera de Espana (historia y catalogo), Madrid, 1958, p.213, no. 1502 (Jacomart and Rexach school); - J. Marette, Connaissance des primitifs par l'étude des bois, Paris, 1961, no. 925, p. 276 (16th-century Spanish school, entourage of Juan Rexach).