Giovanni di Ser Giovianni, LO SCHEGGIA 1406-1486
Desco da parto: Two boys at play

tempera and oil on panel, 63.5 cm. diameter

Provenance
Stefan von Auspitz collection, Vienna, by 1910;
Adolf von Beckerath, Berlin;
Anonymous sale, Berlin, Rudolph Lepke, 23-26 May 1916, lot 311 (as Manner of Piero della Francesca);
Emil Weinberger, Vienna;
His sale, Vienna, C.J. Wawra & Glückselig, 22-24 October 1929, lot 451 (as Central Italian (Sienese) School, c. 1480);
Kurt Walter Bachstitz, The Hague, by 1938;
Sold after his death by his wife Lilli Bachstitz, Paris, Galerie Charpentier, 27 March 1952, lot 11 (as Domenico di Michelino);
With The Arcade Gallery, London, by 1953.
Where acquired by Wildenstein & Co., New York, 1953;
By whom anonymously sold, New York, Christie's, 25 January 2012, lot 3, for $482,500;
Where acquired by Fabrizio Moretti, London;
By whom sold, Sotheby's, New York, 19 December 2019, lot 8, for $262,500;
Where acquired by a European private collection.

Literature
C. Brandi, Quattrocentisti senesi, Milan 1949, p. 210 (as Sienese School);
L. Collobi Ragghianti, "Domenico di Michelino," in La Critica d'Arte, vol. VIII, no. 5, xxxi, January 1950, p. 374, note 22 (as Domenico di Michelino);
E. Callmann, Apollonio di Giovanni, Oxford 1974, pp. 58-59, under no. 14 (without attribution);
E. Callmann, Beyond Nobility. Art for the Private Citizen in the Early Renaissance, exhibition catalogue, Allentown 1980, p. 7, cat. no. 5 (as Florentine School, 1460-80), reproduced fig. II;
C. de Carli, I deschi da parto e la pittura del primo Rinascimento toscano, Turin 1997, pp. 120-121, cat. no. 25 (as Florentine School, c. 1450);
J.M. Musacchio, The Art and Ritual of Childbirth in Renaissance Italy, New Haven and London 1999, pp. 130-131, reproduced fig. 123;
E. Fahy, L'Archivio storico fotografico di Stefano Bardini: dipinti, disegni, miniature, stampe, Florence 2000, pp. 40 and 190, cat. no. 296, reproduced fig. 296;
C.C. Wilson, "Leo Planiscig and Percy Straus 1929-1939: Collecting and Historiography," in Small Bronzes in the Renaissance, New Haven and London 2001, p. 267, note 31 (as dated 1460 - 1480).

Exhibited
London, Knoedler House, Great Masters of the 14th-18th Century from the Collection of N.V. Bachstitz Gallery, 's-Gravenhage, 1938 - 1939, no. 1 (as Andrea da Firenze);
Allentown, Pennsylvania, Allentown Art Museum, Beyond Nobility. Art for the Private Citizen in the Early Renaissance, September 1980 - January 1981, no. 5 (as Florentine School, 1460-80).

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