The Adoration of the Magi

1. Possibly Alexander Barker (died 1874), London [according to catalogue of the Leyland sale, though it is not the one described in Gustave Waagen, Galleries and Cabinets of Art in Great Britain, London, 1857, p. 71 as Dello Fiorentino (?), nor the tondo attributed to Filippo Lippi in the Barker sale, June 19, 1879, no. 489]. Frederick Richards Leyland, London, by 1892, as Filippino Lippi [Child 1892 illustrates the painting in his salon]; sold, Christie’s, London, May 28, 1892, lot 97, to Jeffrey [buyer listed in annotated catalogue at the Getty Research Center]. Emile Gavet, Paris, by 1894 [date of sale given in registrar’s record]; sold to Martin A. Ryerson (died 1932), Chicago, 1894; by descent to his wife Carrie Hutchinson Ryerson (1859–1937), Chicago, 1932 [Last Will and Testament of Martin A. Ryerson, Died August 11, 1932, copy in Institutional Archives, Art Institute of Chicago]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1937.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Chicago, The University of Chicago, The Renaissance Society, Commemorative Exhibition from the Martin A. Ryerson Collection, 1932, no. 4, as Francesco Botticini.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Century of Progress, 1933, cat. 112, as Francesco Botticini.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Century of Progress,1934, cat. 46A, as Francesco Botticini.
• Art Institute of Chicago, The Christmas Story in Art, 1938–1939, as Francesco Botticini, no cat.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpiece of the Month, November 1940, as Francesco Botticini, no cat.
• Burlington, Vermont, Robert Hull Fleming Museum, 1947, no cat.
• Chicago, Federal Savings and Loan Association, Christmas Exhibition, 1954–55, no cat.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Art Inside Out, 1992–1996, no cat.
• Art Institute of Chicago, The Silk Road and Beyond: Travel Trade and Transformation, September 30, 2006-April 22, 2007, no cat.

• Theodore Child, “A Pre-Raphaelite Mansion” in Art and Criticism. Monographs and Studies, New York, 1892, p. 317, ill.
• Ernst Kühnel, Francesco Botticini, Strasbourg, 1906, pp. 16–17, 37, pl. XI (3).
• Bernard Berenson, The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance, 3d ed., New York and London, 1909, p. 119.
• J. A. Crowe and G. B. Cavalcaselle, A History of Painting in Italy, 2d ed, vol. 4, ed. R. Langton Douglas, New York, 1911, p. 297 n. 1.
• Raimond van Marle, The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, vol. 13, 1931, p. 398 (ill.).
• Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, Oxford, 1932, p. 107.
• William R. Valentiner, Paintings in the Collection of Martin A. Ryerson, unpub. MS [1932], Archives, The Art Institute of Chicago, no p.
• Bernard Berenson, Pitture italiane del Rinascimento, Milan, 1936, p. 96.
• “Exhibition of the Ryerson Gift,” Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 32 (1938), p. 3; reprinted as J. L. Allen, “Entire Ryerson Collection Goes to The Chicago Art Institute,” Art News 36, 21, p. 10, ill.
• Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 32 (1938), cover ill.
• K. L. Brewster, “The Ryerson Gift to The Art Institute of Chicago,” Magazine of Art 31 (1938), p. 97, ill.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, A Picture Book: Masterpieces of Painting, XV and XVI Centuries in the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, 1946, pp. 12–13, ill.

Scenes from the Life of Saint John the Baptist

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints and Angels

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Saint John the Baptist Bearing Witness

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Annunciation

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Madonna and Child

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Virgin and Child with Two Angels

Art Institute of Chicago

The Trinity with Christ Bearing the Cross

Art Institute of Chicago

Joseph Sold by his Brothers

Art Institute of Chicago

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