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Apollonio DI GIOVANNI (Florence, 1415 or 1417–1465)
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Apollonio DI GIOVANNI (Florence, 1415 or 1417–1465)
See original version (French)
Estimate €30,000 - €50,000
Voluntary lot
Description
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 catalogue of Joseph Toscanelli’s sale;
Collection of Knight Joseph Toscanelli, Member of Parliament, Pisa;
His sale, Florence, 16 April 1883, part of lot no. 57;
Anonymous sale; London, Sotheby’s, 30 June 1965, lot 108 (attributed to the 15th-century Florentine School, described as having belonged to the Pucci family);
Acquired by Madame Georges Poncet from Madame Jacqueline Fulcrand, an antiquarian 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. pl. 117–118
Paul Watson, ‘Apollonio di Giovanni and Ancient Athens’, Bulletin. 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
See original version (French)
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About the sale
Old Masters & 19th-century masters
Auction location
Auction time
11/10/2026 at 4:00 PM
Pictures credits: Contact the Auction House
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