The Crucifixion

1. Probably a member of the Altieri family, Rome [based on a seal on the back of the painting; see Lloyd 1993, p. 109, n. 2]. Philip Lehman, New York; sold by Lehman to Kleinberger, New York, 1916 [this and following information are from Kleinberger records, European Painting Department, Metropolitan Museum of Art]; sold American Art Association, New York, January 23, 1918, no. 41, ill., for $1,750 to S. Bourgeois, Paris, but returned it to Kleinberger, March 11, 1918; Kleinberger, New York and Paris, 1918-24; sold to Martin A. Ryerson (died 1932), Chicago, 1924 [letter of June 3, 1924 from Kleinberger to Ryerson in AIC archives]; 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.

• New York, F. Kleinberger Gallelries, Italian Primitives, 1917, no. 71, as Allegretto Nuzi.
• Chicago, The Renaissance Society, The University of Chicago, Commemorative Exhibition from the Martin A. Ryerson Collection, 1932, no. 3, as Allegretto Nuzi.
• Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1933, cat. 92, as Allegretto Nuzi
• Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpiece of the Month, March-April, 1956, as Allegretto Nuzi (no cat.)
• Raleight, North Carolina Museum of Art, Reunited: Francescuccio Ghissi’s St. John Altarpiece, September 10, 2016-March 5, 2017; Portland Art Museum, March 26-Septmber 10, 2017.

• Lionello Venturi, Pitture italiane in America, Milan, 1931, pl. XC.
• Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, Oxford, 1932, p. 399.
• Bernard Berenson, Pitture italiane de Rinascimento, Milan, 1936, p. 343
• Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Central Italian and North Italian Schools, vol. 1, London, 1968, p. 302.
• William R. Valentiner, Paintings in the Collection of Martin A. Ryerson, unpublished manuscript [1932], Archives, Art Institute of Chicago, n. pag.
• Federico Zeri, “Note su quadri italiani all’estero,” Bolletino d’arte 43 (1949), pp. 21-30, ill. (reprinted in Federico Zeri: Diario Marchigino, 1948-1988, Turin, 2000, pp,. 56-59, ill.)
• Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago. A Catalogue of the Collection, Chicago, 1961, p. 344.
• Fern Rusk Shapley, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. Italian Schools XIII-XV Century, London, 1966, p. 76.
• L. Vertova, “What Goes with What?” Burlington Magazine 109 (1967), p. 671.
• Dizionario enciclopedico Bolaffi dei pittori e degli incisori italiani,dall’ XI al XX secolo, vol. 1, 1972, pp. 80, 82.
• Federico Zeri, “Un ipotesi sui rapporti tra Allegretto Nuzi e Francescuccio Ghissi,” Antichità viva 14, no. 5 (1975), p. 6.
• Federico Zeri with the assistance of Elizabeth E. Gardner, Italian Paintings. A Catalogue of the Collection of the Metropolitan Mueum of Art. Sienese and Central Italian Schools, New York, 1980, pp. 17-18.

Self-Portrait

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Martin Vanden Bogaert Desjardins

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Remembrance of Italy

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Priest and Boy

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A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884

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Fishing Craft near the Cliffs at Collioure

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Interior of St. Mark's, Venice

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Nighthawks

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