Lot 5

Henry Harris Collection, London
Sotheby's, London, 24-5 October 1950, lot 216, as follower of P. Schiavo (sold £25)
Mrs Carmen Gronau, London
Christie's, London, Old Master & British Pictures, 27 April 2007, lot 65
where presumably purchased by Robert Compton Jones

Zeri, F., 'Early Italian Pictures in the Kress Collection', The Burlington Magazine, CIX, no. 773, 1967, p. 477, fig. 57, as Paolo Schiavo
Boskovits, M., 'Ancora su Paolo Schiavo: una scheda biografica e una proposta di catalogo', Arte Cristiana, LXXXIII, 770, 1995, p. 336 and 338, fig. 7, as Paolo Schiavo

An artist of great versatility, Schiavo was equally adept at small scale panel painting and polyptych altarpieces, as well as frescoes and manuscript illumination. He also supplied cartoons for embroiderers and tapestry-makers.

This panel, representing two scenes, would have originally formed part of a 'predella', some of whose other constituent parts were first recognised by Federico Zeri. Zeri identified four other related panels by Schiavo, of almost identical size and also representing scenes from the Passion; two in the Kress Collection 'The Flagellation' and 'The Crucifixion' (K216, Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico; and K1188, University of Georgia, Athens, GA; see F.R. Shapley, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. Italian Paintings XIII-XV Century, London, 1966, p. 105, figs. 281-2); 'The Betrayal of Christ' (private collection, Florence); and 'The Resurrection' (formerly in the collection of Willard Golovin and sold at Sotheby's, New York, 23 January 2003, lot 176). Professor Miklós Boskovits added a further panel, the 'Agony in the Garden', previously unpublished (private collection, see Boskovits, op. cit., pp. 336 and 339, fig. 8). He considers these panels to possibly be part of the same paliotto, and dates them to around 1435-1440.

RELATED WORK:
Paolo Schiavo, The Flagellation, oil on panel, 33 x 26.7cm, Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico, K216, accession no. 64.0271