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The Death of the Virgin

Starnina (Gherardo di Jacopo) · 1405–10

Provenance

Ownership history

D. P. Sellar, London; sold Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, June 6, 1889, no. 18, for 300 francs (for the price, see annotated copy of this sale catalogue, Topeka Public Library, Topeka, Kansas, and annotated copy of 1914 Sambon Collection sale catalogue, Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York); Jean Dollfus, Paris; sold Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, pt. 3, April 1–2, 1912, no. 51, p. 19 (ill.), as Florentine School, to Sambon for 20,000 francs (for buyer, see annotated copy of sale catalogue, Ryerson Library, The Art Institute of Chicago and, for price, see annotated copy of 1914 Sambon Collection sale catalogue, at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, as cited above); Arthur Sambon, Paris, 1912–14; sold Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, May 25–28, 1914, no. 213 (ill.), as Florentine School, to Trotti for 9000 francs (for price and buyer, see annotated copy of sale catalogue, Thomas J. Watson Library, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, as cited above). Marcel Nicolle, Paris; sold to Hermann Heilbuth, Copenhagen, by 1920 (see exhibition catalogue, Copenhagen 1920, no. 4). Ehrich Galleries, New York; sold to Martin A. Ryerson (d. 1932), Chicago, 1923 (invoice dated February 1, 1923, copy in curatorial files); on loan to the Art Institute from 1923; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1933.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

Copenhagen, Statens Museum for Kunst, A Collection of Paintings: Exhibited in the Danish Museum of Fine Art, 1920, no. 4.
The Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1 to November 1, 1933, no. 90.
Atlanta, GA, High Museum of Art, The “Gates of Paradise”: Lorenzo Ghiberti’s Renaissance Masterpiece, April 28-July 15, 2007; Art Institute of Chicago, July 28-October 13, 2007; Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 30, 2007-January 13, 2008 [Chicago Only].

Literature

Published references

“The Dollfus Sale,” American Art News 10, 26 (1912), p. 10.
Bernard Berenson, Catalogue of a Collection of Paintings and Some Art Objects: Italian Paintings, Philadelphia, 1913, vol. 1, p. 10, no. 13.
Salomon Reinach, Répertoire de peintures du moyen age et de la renaissance (1280–1580), vol. 5, Paris, 1922, p. 442 (ill.)
The Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection, Chicago, 1925, p. 160, no. 2052.
Rose Mary Fischkin, Martin A. Ryerson Collection of Paintings and Sculpture, XIII to XVIII Century, Loaned to The Art Institute of Chicago, unpublished manuscript, Ryerson Library, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1926, pp. 13–15.
Raimond van Marle, The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, 19 vols., The Hague, 1923–38, vol. 9, 1927, pp. 199–200 n.1.
The Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection, Chicago, 1932, p. 181, no. 168.23.
Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, Oxford, 1932, p. 339; revised editions, Pitture italiane del Rinascimento, Milan, 1936, p. 277; Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Florentine School, 2 vols., London, 1963, vol. 1, p. 139.
William R. Valentiner, Paintings in the Collection of Martin A. Ryerson, unpublished manuscript, Archives, The Art Institute of Chicago [1932], unpaginated.
The Art Institute of Chicago, A Brief Illustrated Guide to the Collections, 1935, p. 20.
Georg Pudelko, “The Maestro del Bambino Vispo,” Art in America 26 (1938), p. 54, fig. 4.
Chandler Rathfon Post, A History of Spanish Painting, vol. 8, part 2, Cambridge, Mass., p. 648.

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