The Adventures of Ulysses

1. William Graham (d. 1885), Grosvenor Place, London, by 1875 [lent to London 1875]; sold Christie’s, London, April 8, 1886, no. 172, as “The labours of Ulysses: from a Cassone,” to Martin Colnaghi, acting on behalf of Francis George Baring, for 29 gns.; Francis George Baring, second Earl of Northbrook, from 1886 to at least 1894 [The date 1894 is provided by two labels on the back of the panel]. Robert Langston Douglas, London; sold by Langton Douglas to Julius Böhler, Munich [confirmed by a label on the back of the panel and a letter of April 27, 1987 from Julius Böhler in Margherita Andreotti in curatorial file]; sold by Böhler to Martin A. Ryerson (d. 1932), Chicago, 1911 [bill of sale in Ryerson papers, Art Institute Archives]; on loan to the Art Institute from 1911; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1933.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• London, Royal Academy of Arts, Works by the Old Masters, 1875, cat. 169, as “A Landscape, with Architecture and Figures. Painter Unknown.”
• Brooklyn, Institute of Arts and Sciences Museum, European Art, 1450 – 1500, 1936, cat. 15, as Dido Master.
• Art Insitute of Chicago, New Light on Old Masters: Early Italian Paintings in the Art Institute, May 29–July 31, 1993.

• Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture, and Other Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute, 1913), 197, no. 2088.
• Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture, and Other Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute, 1914), 208, no. 2088.
• Paul Schubring, Cassoni: Truhen und Truhenbilder der italienischen Frührenaissance (Leipzig: Karl W. Hiersemann, 1915), vol. 1, pp. 113, 276, no. 253, vol. 2, pl. 56, no. 253.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, and Architecture (Chicago: Art Institute, 1917), 164.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, Paintings, and Drawings (Chicago: Art Institute, 1920), 62.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture and Paintings (Chicago: Art Institute, 1922), 71.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, and Paintings (Chicago: Art Institute, 1923), 71.
• G. E. Kaltenbach, “Cassoni,” American Magazine of Art 14 (1923): 599, ill.
• Frank Jewett Mather, A History of Italian Painting (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1923), 182-83.
• Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: Art Institute, 1925), 159, no. 2018.
• 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. 16-17.
• Raimond van Marle, The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting vol. 10 (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1928), 554.

Cassone with painted front panel depicting the Conquest of Trebizond

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Story of Esther

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The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families

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The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise

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Coronation of the Virgin

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Madonna and Child with Saints

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Paradise

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The Journey of the Magi

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