
Art Institute of ChicagoPublic domain
Nativity in an Initial H
Zanino di Pietro · 1430/40
Provenance
Ownership history
- Ercole Canessa (died 1929), Paris,1923. Robert Lehman (died 1969), New York; Robin Lehman, London. Sold by James Kirkman, London, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, February 1972; given to the Art Institute, 1998.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Paris, Musée de l’Orangerie, "Exposition de la Collection Lehman de New York," 1957, cat. 172.
- Cincinnati Art Museum, "The Lehman Collection," 1959, p. 31, cat. 324.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Gifts of a Lifetime," 1998–99, checklist 1.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 24, cat. 1 (ill.).
Literature
Published references
- Seymour de Ricci, with William Jerome Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada 2 (New York, 1937), p. 1710, D. 26–27.
- Pia Palladino, Treasures of a Lost Art: Italian Manuscript Painting of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, exh. cat. (New York, 2003), pp. 68–69, 178, fig. 10, cat. 7.
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