
Virgin and Child Enthroned
Girolamo da Santacroce · 1516
Provenance
Ownership history
- James Kerr-Lawson, Florence, by 1910; sold by Kerr-Lawson to Martin A. Ryerson (died 1932), Chicago, 1910 [see letter from Kerr-Lawson to Ryerson dated May 10, 1910 and invoice dated June 14, 1910, in curatorial files]; on loan to the Art Institute from 1923 [according to registrar’s records]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1933.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Chicago, South Side Community Art Center, Exhibition of Religious Art, April 1942, no. 1.
Literature
Published references
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago, 1925), p. 159, no. 2025.
- Rose Mary Fischkin, “Martin A. Ryerson Collection of Paintings and Sculpture, XIII to XVIII Century, Loaned to The Art Institute of Chicago” (unpub. MS, 1926, Ryerson Library, The Art Institute of Chicago), pp. 53–55.
- W. H., “Some Recently Acquired Pictures of the Venetian School,” Bulletin of The Detroit Institute of Art 8, 5 (1927), p. 51.
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago, 1932), p. 180.
- Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance (Oxford, 1932), p. 507.
- William R. Valentiner, “Paintings in the Collection of Martin A. Ryerson” (unpub. MS [1932], Archives, The Art Institute of Chicago), n. p.
- G. Gombosi, “Santacroce, Girolamo,” in Thieme-Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, vol. 29 (Leipzig, 1935), p. 423.
- Bernard Berenson, Pitture italiane del Rinascimento (Milan, 1936), p. 436.
- Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Venetian School, vol. 1 (London, 1957), p. 154, pl. 574.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 410.
- Hans Huth, “Italienische Kunstwerke im Art Institute von Chicago, USA,” in Miscellanea Bibliothecae Hertzianae (Munich, 1961), p. 517.
- Fritz Heinemann, Giovanni Bellini e i belliniani (Venice, 1962), vol. 1, pp. 39, 161, no. 136 (l); vol. 2, fig. 647.
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