Mantegna, Andrea 1431 Isola di Carturo - 1506... Lot 1019

Mantegna, Andrea 1431 Isola di Carturo - 1506 Mantua - Workshop Tempera and oil on wood. Parquetted. 36 x 52cm. Framed. Verso: On the board collector and restorer labels. Literature: U. B. Schmitt, Francesco Bonsignori, Munich 1961, p.130 (as Francesco Bonsignori) F. Heinemann: Giovanni Bellini e i Belliani, Band I. Venice 1963, no. V.163, p. 242, ill. 700 (as Lauro Padovano) E. Zafran: European Art in the High Museum. Atlanta 1984, p. 40 with ill. (as ascribed to Francesco Bonsignori) F. Zeri, F. Rossi, Accademia Carrara di Belle Arti Bergamo. La raccolta Morelli nell'Accademia Carrara, Milan 1986, p. 133-135 (as Francesco Bonsignori) G. Valagussa, Accademia Carrara Bergamo - dipinti italiani del Trecento e del Quattrocento. Catalogo completo, Milan 2018, p. 266-268 (as Lauro Padovano?). Provenance: Probably Gonzaga collection, Mantua (15th-16th cent.) Vieweg collection, Braunschweig Auction Lepke, Berlin, 18.03.1930, lot 23, ill. Tafel 46, as Paduaner Meister ca. 1500 Art dealer E.&A. Silbermann Galleries, New York High Museum of Art, Atlanta Auction Christie's, New York, 26.01.2005, lot 277 Collection Prof. Dr. Thomas Olbricht, Essen. This painting, together with a panel depicting \"St. John the Evangelist resurrects Drusiana\" (Bergamo, Pinacoteca dell'Accademia Carrara, Inv. 58MR00100), is part of a predella with scenes from the life of St. John the Evangelist. Both the main painting and the place for which the work was intended are unknown. The fact that on the back of the painting in Bergamo there is the coat of arms of the Gonzaga family suggests that both come from a Mantuan church or from the collection of this family. The painting depicting the martyrdom of St. John the Baptist was attributed alternately to Francesco Bonsignori and a Veronese painter of the late 15th century. Since 1989 it has been suspected that it cou