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The Flight into Egypt
Bernardino Jacobi Butinone · c. 1485
Provenance
Ownership history
- Count de Malherbe, Paris, by 1921 [Kleinberger stock card, Department of European Paintings, Metropolitan Museum of Art]; sold to Kleinberger, Paris and New York, 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.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, Lotos Club, 1927, no cat.
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1933, no. 82.
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1934, no. 26.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Glad Tidings of Great Joy, 1994–1995, no cat.
Literature
Published references
- 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, ill., 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- C. Baroni and S. Samek Ludovici, La pittura lombarda del quattrocento (Messina and Florence, 1952), pp. 235, 238-39.
- Federico Zeri, “Two Contributions to Lombard Quattrocento Painting,” Burlington Magazine 97 (1955), p. 77 n 4.
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