The Continence of Scipio by Workshop of Apollonio di Giovanni
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The Continence of Scipio

Workshop of Apollonio di Giovanni · c. 1455

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Probably Emile Gavet, Paris [according to Registrar’s records]; Martin A. Ryerson (d. 1932), Chicago, by 1912 [according to a letter from Frank Jewett Mather, Jr., to Martin A. Ryerson of November 22,1912, Ryerson papers, Archives, The Art Institute of Chicago]; on loan to the Art Institute from 1924; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1933.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Literature

Published references

  • Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: The Art Institute, 1925), 160, no. 2069.
  • 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. 18-19.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: The Art Institute, 1932), 183, no. 2884.24.
  • Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1932), 3246.
  • Bernard Berenson, Pitture italiane del Rinascimento (Milan: U. Hoepli, 1936), 283.
  • Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Florentine School, vol. 1 (London: Phaidon, 1963), 18.
  • William R. Valentiner, Paintings in the Collection of Martin A. Ryerson, unpub. MS [1932], Archives, The Art Institute of Chicago, n. pag.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: The Art Insitute, 1961), 225.
  • Hans Huth, “Italienische Kunstwerke im Art Institute von Chicago, USA,” in Miscellanea Bibliothecae Hertzianae (Munich: Anton Schroll and Company, 1961), 516.
  • Barbara Bernhard, “A Cassone Puzzle Reconstructed,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 5 (1970): 23 – 30, figs. 1, 1a. 1b.
  • Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972), 12, 571.
  • Ellen Callmann, Apollonio di Giovanni (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974), 42, 73, no. 50, pls. 201, 203.

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