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42 - Apollonio DI GIOVANNI (Florence, 1415 or 1417–1465)
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Estimate €30,000 - €50,000
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
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About the sale Old Masters & 19th-century masters
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Auction time 11/10/2026 at 4:00 PM
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