DOMENICO DI ZANOBI called MASTER OF THE JOHNSON NATIVITY

Provenance:
- Collection of the miniaturist August Grahl (1791–1868).
- Collection of Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, until 1900.
- Sale Galleria Sangiorgi, vendita Bevilacqua La Masa, 15.–22.10.1900, Lot 471.
- Collection of Marcello Galli-Dunn, Castle Badia, Poggibonsi, 1900–1905.
- Sale Galleria Sangiorgi, Rome, Collection of Galli-Dunn, 1.–6.5.1905, Lot 323 (attributed to Cosimo Rosselli).
- Private collection, Switzerland.
- Sale Koller, Zurich, 27.3.2015, Lot 3003.

Literature:
- Bernard Berenson: Catalogue of a collection of Paintings and some Art Objects, I, John J. Johnson Collection, Philadelphia 1913, p. 35 (as school of Cosimo Rosselli).
- Raymond Van Marle: The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, XI, The Hague 1929, p. 617, note1 (as school of Cosimo Rosselli).
- Riccardo Musatti: Catalogo giovanile di Cosimo Rosselli, in: Rivista d' Arte, XXVI, 1950, p. 123, note. 34 (as Pseudo Pier Francesco Fiorentino).
- Everett Fahy: Some Followers of Domenico Ghirlandaio, New York / London 1976, p. 173 (as Master of the Johnson nativity).
- G. Landolfi: Il Maestro della Nativita Johnson, in Dalli Regoli, G. (ed.): Il Maestro di San Miniato. Lo stato degli studi, i problemi, le risposte della filologia, Pisa 1988, p. 310, no. 6, fig. 204 (as Master of the Johnson nativity).

Our thanks to Prof. Gaudenz Freuler for his expert assistance in cataloguing this painting.