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Fragment from Christ Carrying the Cross: Saint John the Evangelist
Jean Hey, (the Master of Moulins) · c. 1500
Provenance
Ownership history
- M. Guggenheim, Venice, by 1892 [according to receipt in Art Institute Archives; sold to Martin A. Ryerson (d. 1932), Chicago, June 1892 [receipt cited above.]; by descent to his wife Carrie Hutchinson Ryerson (1859–1937), Chicago, 1932 [Last Will and Testament of Martin A. Ryerson, Died August 11, 1932, copy in Institutional Archives, Art Institute of Chicago]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1937.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Paris, Galeries nationales, Grand Palais, France 1500: entre Moyen Age et Renaissance, 2010–11, no. 70b.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Kings, Queens, and Courtiers: Art in Early Renaissance France, Feb. 26-May 30, 2011, cat. 61.
Literature
Published references
- Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: A List of the Principal Artists and Their Works, with an Index of Places, Oxford, 1932, p. 141; rev. ed., Italian Pictures of the Renaissance:Central Italian and North Italian Schools, vol. 1 (London, 1968), 83.
- Christian Hornig, Cavazzola (Munich: W. Fink, 1976), 124, no. C4.
- Martha Wolff, “Reconstitution d’une scène de la Passion peinte par le Maître de Moulins,” Revue de l’art, no. 147 (2005), 58–66, figs. 4–6, 11.
- Martha Wolff in Martha Wolff et al., Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 2008), 23-30, ill.
- Martha Wolff et al., Kings, Queens, and Courtiers: Art in Early Renaissance France (New Haven and London, 2011), 130, ill.
- Yann Quero, Le Maître de Moulins: Peintre de quatre reines de France (Toulous: Éditions Arkuiris, 2022), 403-21.
- Bruno Amiot, "Le commanditaire du Saint Maurice de Jean Hey," Revue de l'art, no. 219 (2023), 8-17, fig. 3.
- Sophie Caron, "Jean Hey: Un Flamand en Bourbonnais," Dossiers de l'Art, no. 334 (Dec. 2025–Jan. 2026): 24–25, (ill.).
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