Paolo Uccello
Battle On The Banks Of A River, Probably The Battle Of The Metaurus (207 Bce)
Estimate: 600.000 - 800.000 GBP
Price realised: 2.415.000 GBP
Price realised: 2.415.000 GBP
Description
This work is sold pursuant to a settlement agreement between the current owner and the heirs of Fritz Gutmann
PAOLO UCCELLO
Florence c. 1397-1475
BATTLE ON THE BANKS OF A RIVER, PROBABLY THE BATTLE OF THE METAURUS (207 BCE)
tempera and gold on panel
painted surface: 42.8 by 162.3 cm.; 16⅞ by 63⅞ in.; overall dimensions: 50.8 by 170.3 cm.; 20 by 67⅛ in.
M. Gauthier-Villars (probably Albert-Paul Gauthier-Villars, publisher) | His sale (‘Objets d'art... provenant de la Collection de Monsieur G. V.’) Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 14 March 1918, lot 5 (as attributed to Paolo Uccello) | Count René Avogli Trotti, Paris, by February 1919 | Fritz Gutmann (1886–1944), Amsterdam and Heemstede, by 1921 | Forced sale to Julius Böhler, Munich (and Karl Haberstock, Berlin), 11 February 1942 | With Piero Tozzi
PAOLO UCCELLO
Florence c. 1397-1475
BATTLE ON THE BANKS OF A RIVER, PROBABLY THE BATTLE OF THE METAURUS (207 BCE)
tempera and gold on panel
painted surface: 42.8 by 162.3 cm.; 16⅞ by 63⅞ in.; overall dimensions: 50.8 by 170.3 cm.; 20 by 67⅛ in.
M. Gauthier-Villars (probably Albert-Paul Gauthier-Villars, publisher) | His sale (‘Objets d'art... provenant de la Collection de Monsieur G. V.’) Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 14 March 1918, lot 5 (as attributed to Paolo Uccello) | Count René Avogli Trotti, Paris, by February 1919 | Fritz Gutmann (1886–1944), Amsterdam and Heemstede, by 1921 | Forced sale to Julius Böhler, Munich (and Karl Haberstock, Berlin), 11 February 1942 | With Piero Tozzi