The Baptism of Christ

1. Alexander Barker, London, by 1852 to at least 1857 [lent to London 1852 and Manchester 1857]; sold by Barker to William Ward (d. 1885), first Earl of Dudley, London, by 1868 [lent by Dudley to Leeds 1868]; sold Christie’s, London, June 25, 1892 (nos. 76-77, 79-80. The Resurrection, no. 78, was sold separately and is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art), to Durand-Ruel, Paris and New York, acting on behalf of Martin A. Ryerson [according to letters from Durand-Ruel to Ryerson dated June 25 and 29, 1892 in the Art Institute archives]; sold by Durand-Ruel to Martin A. Ryerson (d. 1932), Chicago, 1893 [according to the bill of sale dated April 8, 1893 in the Art Institute archives]; intermittently on loan to the Art Institute from 1893; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1933.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• London, British Institution, 1852, no. 34.
• Manchester, Art Treasures of the United Kingdom, 1857, no. 84.
• Leeds, National Exhibition of Works of Art, 1868, no. 2906.
• London, Royal Academy of Arts, Works of the Old Masters, 1871, no. 312.
• London, Royal Academy of Arts, Works by the Old Masters, 1892, no. 147.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, Selected Works of Old and Modern Masters, 1898, no. 11.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1933, no. 123b.
• Chicago, South Side Community Art Center, Exhibition of Religious Art, 1942, no. 6.
• Highland Park Library, Illinois, 1952 (no cat.).
• Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Glad Tidings of Great Joy. Christmas at the Art Institute of Chicago, 1993.
• Grand Rapids, Michigan, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Perugino: The Master of the Italian Renaissance, November 15, 1997 – February 1, 1998, no. 1b.
• Perugia, Italy, Gallerie Nazionale dell'Umbria, Perugino: il divin pittore, February 28, 2004 – August 18, 2004, no. I.48b.

• Gustav Friedrich Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain, vol. 2 (London, 1854), p. 127.
• W. Bürger [T. Thoré], Trésors d’art exposés à Manchester en 1857 (Paris, 1857), pp. 34–35.
• W. Bürger [T. Thoré], Trésors d’art en Angleterre, 3rd ed. (Paris, 1865), pp. 34–35.
• J. A. Crowe and G. B. Cavalcaselle, A History of Painting in Italy from the Second to the Fourteenth Century, vol. 3 (London, 1866), pp. 250–51.
• “Leeds Exhibition,” The Art Journal 7 (1868), p. 137.
• John Charles Robinson, A Critical Account of the Drawings by Michel Angelo and Raffaello in the University Galleries, Oxford (Oxford, 1870), pp. 135–36, under no. 20.
• William Roberts, Memorials of Christie’s: A Record of Art Sales from 1766 to 1896, vol. 2 (London, 1897), p. 197.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Objects in the Museum, Part I, Sculpture and Painting, 3d ed. (Chicago, 1898), p. 124, no. 195.
• George C. Williamson, Pietro Vannucci, called Perugino (London, 1903), p. 126.
• Bernard Berenson, The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance, 3d ed. (New York and London, 1909), p. 218.
• J. A. Crowe and G. B. Cavalcaselle, A New History of Painting in Italy from the Second to the Sixteenth Century, ed. by Edward Hutton, vol. 3 (London and New York, 1909), pp. 258, 259 n. 1.
• Bryson Burroughs, “A Painting by Perugino,” Bulletin of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 6, 6 (1911), p. 130.

Saint John the Baptist; Saint Lucy

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The Resurrection

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Christ in the tomb, resting across the Virgin's lap; after Perugino

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Landscape (recto); Landscape (verso)

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Study of a Kneeling Youth and of the Head of Another

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Pietà, with the body of Christ supported by the Virgin and two holy women, Saint John stands to the left; from "Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France, Cabinet Crozat" after a drawing by Perugino

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Group of Warriors Standing

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Study of the Head of a Youth Gazing Upward

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