(Florence 1320/30–1398/1400)
The Sermon of Saint James the Great,
tempera and oil on panel, gold ground, pointed top, 23.5 x 16.5 cm, framed

Provenance:
Stoclet collection, Brussels;
Nestor Somlio collection, Paris;
Moratilla collection, Paris, 1971;
Private collection, Florence, 1975;
sale, Hampel, Munich, 26 September 2018, lot 612 (as Jacopo di Cione);

Literature:
L. Vertova, What goes with what?, in: The Burlington Magazine, December 1967, pp. 671-672, fig. 13 (as Allegretto Nuzi);
L. Vertova, Lo storico d’arte al bivio e alcuni inediti, in: Arte illustrata, 1972, no. 5, pp. 245-247, illustrated p. 245, fig. 2 (as Tuscan painter, 14th Century);
M. Boskovits, Pittura fiorentina alla vigilia del Rinascimento 1370-1400, Florence 1975, p. 328, fig. 107 (as Jacopo di Cione)

The present painting is registered in the Fototeca Zeri as Maestro dell’Infanzia (no. 2801).

We are grateful to Alessandro Tomei for confirming the attribution of the present painting on the basis of a digital photograph.

The Sermon of Saint James the Great can be compared to other works by Jacopo di Cione, such as the so-called Pala della Zecca executed in 1372–1373 together with Niccolò di Tommaso (Florence, documented 1346–1376) and Simone di Lapo (Florence, documented 1371–1372) which is now conserved in the Galleria dell’Accademia, Florence (inv. no. 1890, n. 456) as well as the panel of the Madonna and Child in Glory between Angels and Saints in the Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania (inv. no. 60.04 KBS ).