About This Artwork
Adoration of the Magi, late 15th century
Alabaster, polychrome and gilding
42.6 x 29.2 cm (16 3/4 x 11 1/2 in.)
Gift of Mrs. Emily Crane Chadbourne, 1926.1048
Medieval to Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Publication History
Augusta S. Tavender, “Mediaeval English Alabasters in American Museums,” Speculum 30, 1 (1955), pp. 64-71, here p. 70, no. 56.
Dorothy Gillerman, ed., Gothic Sculpture in America, vol. 2: The Museums of the Midwest (Turnhout, Belgium, 2001), pp. 5-6, no. 3.
Robert S. Nelson, "The Art Collecting of Mrs. Emily Crane Chadbourne and the Absence of Byzantine Art in Chicago," in To Inspire and Instruct: A History of Medieval Art in Midwestern Museums, ed. by Christina Nielsen (Newcastle, 2008), pp. 131-148, here 137-38, fig. 9.4.