Judith with the Head of Holofernes

1. Sir George Donaldson, Hove, England, to 1918; bought by Thomas Agnew and Sons, Ltd., London, 16 November 1918; sold 10 June 1931 to W. J. Fergus, Montreal [Agnew and Sons letter to Susan Wise, 16 August 1989, in curatorial file]; sold to Schaeffer Galleries, Inc., New York [Susan Wise phone conversation with Schaeffer Galleries, 27 September 1989, note in curatorial file]; sold to Mr. and Mrs. Worcester for the Art Institute, 1939 [letter from Schaeffer Galleries, 29 March 1939, in curatorial file].

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• California Palace Legion of Honor, San Francisco, Exhibition of Italian Baroque Painting, 17th and 18th Centuries, May 16-June 15, 1941, pp. 22, 41 (ill.), no. 73.
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Florentine Baroque Art from American Collections, April 16-June 15, 1969, pp. 45, no. 40, fig. 23.
• Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Know What You See, October 6-November 7, 1970, unpaginated.
• Worcester Art Museum, Woman as Heroine, September 15-October 22, 1972, p. 26, no. 10.

• “Report for the Year 1939,” Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago, 34, No. 3 (March 1940), p. 11 (as Martinelli).
• N[uma] S. Trivas, review of San Francisco, Exhibition of Italian Baroque Painting: 17th and 18th Centuries, Apollo, 34 (1941), pp. 44-45, fig. II (as Martinelli).
• Frederick A. Sweet, “Judith by Giovanni Martinelli,” Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago, 36 (1942), pp. 6-7 (ill.).
• “Martinelli Excavated,” The Art Digest, 16, no. 8 (January 15, 1942), p. 12 (ill.).
• The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 295 (as Martinelli).
• Hans Huth, “Italienische Kunstwerke im Art Institute von Chicago, USA,” Römische Forschungen der Bibliotheca Hertziana, 16 (1961), p. 518 (as Martinelli).
• Ann Sutherland Harris, review of New York, Florentine Baroque Art from American Collections, Art News, 68, no. 3 (May 1969), ill. p. 32 (as Ficherelli).
• Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, Cambridge, Mass., 1972, pp. 121, 266, 571 (as Martinelli).
• Alfred Werner, “Museen und Ausstellungen . . . Worcester, Mass.,” Pantheon, 30, (1972), ill. p. 516 (as Ficherelli).
• A[ndor] Pigler, Barockthemen: Eine Auswahl von Verzeichnissen zur Ikonographie des 17. Und 18. Jahrhunderts (Budapest, 1974) I, p. 194 (as attributed to Ficherelli).
• David Satter, “Healing art’s injuries an art in itself,” Chicago Tribune (September 6, 1974), pp. 1, 11 (as Ficherelli).
• “Felice Ficherelli (Il Riposo), Judith,” The Journal of the American Medical Association (July 18, 1977), p. 26.

The Three Fates

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Angelica Resting Under a Tree, from Orlando Furioso

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Leaving

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Polyphemus Throwing Boulders at the Fleeing Aeis and Galatea (recto); Polyphemus Playing His Reed Pipes for Galatea (verso)

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Virgin and Child with the Infant John the Baptist, and Saints Francis of Assisi and Clare

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Wellen (Waves) (Dress or Furnishing Fabric)

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Tramino (Furnishing Fabric)

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Jussuf (Curtain Fabric) (Dress or Furnishing Fabric)

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