The Flight into Egypt

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Painting and Sculpture of Europe

c. 1485

Bernardino Butinone (Italian, c. 1450-before 1510)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Bernardino Jacobi Butinone
Title: The Flight into Egypt
Place: Italy (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1480–1490
Medium: Tempera on panel
Dimensions: 25.6 × 22 cm (10 1/8 × 8 11/16 in.); Framed: 30.5 × 25.4 cm (12 × 10 in.)
Credit Line: Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
Reference Number: 1933.1003
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D. C. Rich, “Three Paintings of the Quattrocentro,” Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 21 (1921), pp. 86-88, ill.
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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.
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C. Baroni and S. Samek Ludovici, La pittura lombarda del quattrocento (Messina and Florence, 1952), pp. 235, 238-39.
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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.

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.

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