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Pietà
After Cosimo Tura · 1475/1500
Provenance
Ownership history
- Paul Delaroff (died 1913), St. Petersburg, to 1913 [see a red wax seal on the back of the panel that reads “Collection Paul Delaroff/1914]; his estate sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, April 23–24, 1914, no. 233, as Cosimo Tura. Kleinberger, New York, by 1923; sold to Martin A. Ryerson (died 1932), Chicago, 1923 [see invoice from Kleinberger to Ryerson dated June 22, 1923, Archives, Art Institute]; on loan to the Art Institute from 1923; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1933.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–November 1, 1933, no. 101.
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–November 1, 1934, no. 40.
Literature
Published references
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago, 1925), p. 161, no. 2085.
- [R. M. Fischkin], “A Pietà by Marco Zoppo,” Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 20 (1926), pp. 55–56, ill.
- Rose Mary Fischkin, “Martin A. Ryerson Collection of Paintings and Sculpture, XIII to XVIII Century, Loaned to The Art Institute of Chicago,’ (unpub. MS, 1926, Ryerson Library, The Art Institute of Chicago), pp. 46–47.
- Daniel Catton Rich, “A Crucifixion by Carlo Crivelli,” Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 23 (1929), p. 147, ill.
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago, 1932), p. 183, no. 2585.23.
- William R. Valentiner, “Paintings in the Collection of Martin A. Ryerson,” (unpub. MS [1932], Archives, The Art Institute of Chicago), no page.
- Exposition de l’art italien de Cimabue à Tiepolo, exh. cat. (Petit Palais, Paris, 1935), under no. 468.
- Raimond van Marle, “Two Ferrarese Wood-Carvings of the XVth Century,” Apollo 21 (1935), p. 12, fig. IX.
- Eberhard Ruhmer, Tura: Paintings and Drawings (London, 1958), pp. 48, 58 n. 95, 175–76, under nos. 47–48, pl. VIII.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), pp. 487–88.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Grands Musées 2 (Paris, 1968), pp. 24, 67, fig. 3.
- Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972), 205, 296, 571.
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