The Descent from the Cross

1. Count de Malherbe, Paris, by 1921 [Kleinberger stock card, Department of European Paintings, Metropolitan Museum of Art]; sold to Kleinberger, Paris and New York, in 1921 [according to Kleinberger stock card cited above]; sold by Kleinberger to Martin A. Ryerson (d. 1932), Chicago, 1927; on loan to the Art Institute from 1927; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1933.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• New York, Lotos Club, 1927, no cat.
• Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1933, no. 83.
• Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1934, no. 25.

• D. C. Rich, “Three Paintings of the Quattrocentro,” Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 21 (1921), pp. 86-88, ill.
• E. S. Siple, “Art in America: The Art Institute of Chicago − The Ryerson Collection,” Burlington Magazine 51 (1927), pp. 240-241, pl. I.
• Mario Salmi, “Bernardino Butinone ― I,” Dedalo 10 (1929), pp. 347, 351.
• Lionello Venturi, Pitture italiane in America, 1931, pls. CCCXXV–CCCXXVI.
• Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago, 1932), p. 179, nos. 803.27, 804.27.
• Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance (Oxford, 1932), p. 121.
• “Ryerson Makes Princely Bequest to The Art Institute of Chicago,” Art Digest 6, 20 (1932), p. 3, ill.
• William R. Valentiner, Paintings in the Collection of Martin A. Ryerson, unpub. MS [1932], Archives, The Art Institute of Chicago, n. pag.
• Bernard Berenson, Pitture italiane del Rinascimento (Milan, 1936), p. 105.
• Roberto Longhi, “Le arti,” in J. De Blasi, ed. Romanità e Germanesimo (Florence, 1941), ill. opp. p. 305; reprinted in Opere complete di Roberto Longhi, vol. 9 (Florence, 1979), pl. 39b.
• Art Institute of Chicago, An Illustrated Guide to the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1948), p. 25.
• Martin Davies, National Gallery Catalogues: The Earlier Italian Schools (London, 1951), p. 102, under no. 3336; rev. ed. 1961, p. 132, under no. 3336

The Flight into Egypt

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Deposition

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Two Standing Prisoners in a Niche

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God the Father

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Flagellation of Saint Catherine

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Five Putti with Books

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Lot and His Daughters

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Rest on the Flight into Egypt

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