
Sacrifice of Cain and Abel, with God the Father Above
Giorgio Vasari · 1554/55
Provenance
Ownership history
- Sold, Puttick & Simpson, London, May 15, 1914, part of lot 85, to William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower right, in black]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922 [stamp (Lugt 1230b), lower center on former mount, in black].
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Literature
Published references
- Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura M. Giles, Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1997), p. 251, no. 325 (ill.).
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