Sacrificial Scene

1. Mr. Bromley-Davenport [inscription]. John Malcolm (died 1893), Poltalloch and London; his son-in-law, Honorable Alfred E. Gathorne-Hardy (died 1918), Newbury, Berkshire; his son, Geoffrey Gathorne-Hardy, Newbury, Berkshire; his cousin, Honorable Robert Gathorne-Hardy, Newbury, Berkshire; sold, Sotheby’s, London, November 24, 1976, Gathorne-Hardy sale, lot 6. British Rail Pension Fund; sold by Lexbourne Ltd., London, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1989.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• London, Royal Academy of Arts, "Exhibition of Italian Art, 1200-1900," 1930, cat. 601, as Ercole di Giulio Cesare Grandi.
• Ferrara, Reale Accademia d’Italia, Palazzo dei Diamanti, "Catalogo della Esposizione della Pittura Ferrarese del Rinascimento," 1933, cat. 239, as Ercole de’ Roberti.
• London, P.&D. Colnaghi, "Loan Exhibition of Drawings by Old Masters from the Collection of Geoffrey Gathorne-Hardy," 1971, cat. 8.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, "New Acquisitions: Old Master Drawings of the 15th-18th Centuries," 1989-1990.
• New York, The Frick Collection, "From Pontormo to Seurat: Drawings Recently Acquired by The Art Institute of Chicago," April 23-July 7, 1991, n.p., cat. 1; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, September 10, 1991-January 5, 1992.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago," April 10-July 22, 1997.

• Alfred E. Gathorne-Hardy, Descriptive Catalogue of the Drawings in the Possession of the Hon. A. E. Gathorne-Hardy (London, 1902), no. 39.
• Josef Schoenbrunner and Josef Meder, Handzeichnungen alter meister aus der Albertina und anderen Sammlungen 9 (Vienna, 1896-1908), no. 1046 (ill.).
• Edmund G. Gardener, The Painters of Ferrara (London, 1911), p. 224.
• Georg Gronau, "Ercole (di Giulio Cesare) Grandi," Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Kunstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart 14 (Leipzig, 1921), p. 507.
• Aldofo Venturi, "Scelta di rari disegni nei musei d’Europa," L’Arte, 29 (1926), p. 7 (ill.).
• Arthur E. Popham, Italian Drawings Exhibited at the Royal Academy, Burlington House, London (London, 1931), p. 42, no. 150 (ill.).
• Lord Balniel and Kenneth Clark, A Commemorative Catalogue of the Exhibition of Italian Art Held in the Galleries of the Royal Academy, Burlington House, London, January-March 1930 (London, 1931), p. 239, no. 752.
• Roberto Longhi, Officina ferrarese (Florence, 1934), p. 170, n. 89.
• Frits Saxl, "Pagan Sacrifice in the Italian Renaissance," Journal of the Warburg Institute 2 (1938-1939), p. 352 (ill.).
• Sergio Ortolani, Cosmè Tura, Francesco del Cossa, Ercole de’ Roberti (Milan, 1941), p. 191 (ill.).
• Mario Salmi, Ercole de’ Roberti (Milan, 1960), p. 45 (ill.).
• Eberhard Ruhmer, "Ergänzendes zur Zeichnenkunst des Ercole de’ Roberti," Pantheon 20 (1962), p. 246, no. 4.

Allegory of Charity

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Francesco de' Medici

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Putti Carrying the Cross (recto); Studies of a Hand (verso)

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Gian Lodovico Madruzzo

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Bust of a Youth (Saint John the Baptist)

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Study after Bernini's Angel sculpture at Ponte Sant'Angelo (recto); Copy of Africa Group (verso)

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May

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Adam and Eve in Paradise

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