The Crucifixion

1. Alexander Barker (died 1874) and his executors, London; sold Christie’s, London, June 21, 1879, no. 472, to Lesser for £100 16s [annotated catalogue at Frick Art Reference Library]. Baron E. de Beurnonville, Paris; offered for sale but bought in, Charles Pillet, Paris, May 9–16, 1881, no. 632; sold Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 21–22, 1883, no.126, for Fr 2,800 [Mireur 1911]. Joseph Spiridon, Rome, probably by 1883 [the catalogue of the 1929 Spiridon sale erroneously states that it was acquired from Beurnonville in 1876]; sold Cassirer and Helbing, Berlin, May 31, 1929, no. 15, pl. 23, to Knoedler for 250,000 marks [annotated catalogue at Getty Center]; sold by Knoedler, London, to Art Institute, 1929.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• The Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1933, no. 115.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1934, no. 27.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpiece of the Month, February 1942, no cat.
• Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Massachuesetts, Ornament and Illusion: Carlo Crivelli of Venice, Oct. 22, 2015-Jan. 25, 2016.

• George G. Redford, Art Sales: A History of Sales of Pictures and Other Works, vol. 2, London, 1888, p. 227.
• Algernon Graves, Art Sales from Early in the Eighteenth Century to Early in the Twentieth Century, vol. 1, London, 1918, p. 184.
• Franz Drey, Carlo Crivelli und seine Schule, Munich, 1927, pp. 89–90, 147, pl. LXXIV.
• W. R. Deusch, “Die Sammlung Spiridon – Paris,” Kunst und Künstler 27 (1929), p. 331 (ill.).
• Raimond van Marle, “Die Sammlung Joseph Spiridon,” Der Cicerone 21 (1929), p. 187, fig. 11.
• Luitpold Dussler, “Die italienischen Bilder der sammlung Spiridon,” Pantheon (1929), p. 166.
• Daniel Catton Rich, “A Crucifixion by Carlo Crivelli,” Art Institute Bulletin 23 (1929), pp. 145–47, cover ill.; reprinted as “Crivelli from the Spiridon Sale in Chicago,” Art News 28 (1929), pp. 3 (ill.), 6.
• Frida Schottmüller, “Bilder der Sammlung Spiridon,” Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst 63 (1929), p. 27(ill.).
• The Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection, 1932, p. 3 (ill.).
• Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, Oxford, 1932, p. 161.
• Alfred M. Frankfurter, ‘Art in the Century of Progress,” Fine Arts 20, 2 (1933), pp. 12 (ill.), 60.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, A Brief Illustrated Guide to the Collections, 1935, p. 20.

Head of Child

Art Institute of Chicago

Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Art Institute of Chicago

Cobra Chair

Art Institute of Chicago

Mourners in a Graveyard

Art Institute of Chicago

Prints from the Popol-Vuh

Art Institute of Chicago

Assumption of the Virgin

Art Institute of Chicago

Monte Carlo Sporting Club

Art Institute of Chicago

Half-Length Praying Figure

Art Institute of Chicago

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