The Nativity

1. Sold through the Monastery of San Marco, Florence, to Domenico Perini, April 16, 1507; sent by Domenico Perini to France and possibly sold to Louis XII, King of France, along with a Noli me tangere now in the Louvre, according to a list of all Fra Bartolommeo’s pictures compiled in 1516; Bedemeau de Buxerolles, Poitou. Tabarly collection, Blois, Pierre Landry, Paris, by 1955; his heirs, sold, Christie’s, London, 11 July 2001, no. 68 to Haboldt and Company, Paris; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2005.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Paris, Galeries nationales, Grand Palais, France 1500: Entre Moyen Age et Renaissance, Oct. 5, 2010–Jan. 10, 2011, cat. 200.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Kings, Queens, and Courtiers: Art in Early Renaissance France, Feb. 26–May 30, 2011, cat. 115.
• Rotterdam, Museum Boijamns Van Beuningen, Fra Bartolommeo: The Divine Renaissance, Oct. 15 2016- Jan. 15, 2017, cat. 5 (ill).

• Enrico Ridolfi, “Notizie sopra varie opere di Fra da San Marco,” Giornale Ligustico di archeologica, storia e belle arti 5 (1878), p. 122.
• P. Vincenzo Marchese, Memorie dei più insigni pittori, scultori e architetti domenicani, 4th ed., vol. 2, Bologne, 1879, p. 177.
• Fritz Knapp, Fra Bartolommeo della Porta und die Schule von San Marco, Halle, 1903, p. 271.
• Janet Cox-Rearick, La Collection de François Ier, exhib. cat., Paris, Musée du Louvre, Les dossiers du département des peintures, 1972, p. 24.
• Janet Cox-Rearick, The Collection of Francis I: Royal Treasures, Antwerp, 1996, pp. 167-8, no. V-2.
• Chris Fischer, Fra Bartolommeo et son atelier. Dessins et peintures des collections françaises, exhib. cat., Paris, Musée du Louvre, 1994, p. 86, under no. 50.
• Janet Cox-Rearick, The Collection of Francis I: Royal Treasure, Antwerp, 1996, pp. 168, 447.
• E[verett] F[ahy] in L’Età di Savonarola: Fra Bartolomeo e la scuola di San Marco, exhib. cat. Florence, Palazzo Pitti and Museo di San Marco, 1996, p. 85, under no, 17.
• Serena Padovani, "Il Tondo Visconti Venosta: un capolavoro della prima maturità di Fra Bartolommeo," in Un restauro per Fra' Bartolomeo, exh. cat. , edited by Lavinia Galli Michero, pp. 14–16, 19.
• Bruce Boucher, "Notable Acquisitions at the Art Institute of Chicago," Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 32, no. 1 (2006), p. 56, ill. p. 57.
• "The Story of Art Retold: New Acquisitions at the Art Institute of Chicago," Apollo (October 2008): 46 (ill.).
• Hamboldt & Co. Singular Vision: Hamboldt & Co.'s Old Master Paintings and Drawings since 1983. Amserdamn: Hamboldt & Co., 2012. p. 36-37.

Monastery on the Slope of a Rocky Hill

Art Institute of Chicago

Watermill with Figures on an Arched Bridge

Art Institute of Chicago

Standing Draped Male Figure in Three-quarters Profile (recto); Putto (verso)

Art Institute of Chicago

Saint Anthony Abbot

Art Institute of Chicago

Cupid in a Landscape

Art Institute of Chicago

Holy Family

Art Institute of Chicago

Fra Le Righe (Between the Lines)

Art Institute of Chicago

Fra Le Righe (Between the Lines)

Art Institute of Chicago

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