The Crucifixion

1401/04

Taddeo di Bartolo
Italian, 1362/63-1422

Status: On View, Gallery 237
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Taddeo di Bartolo
Title: The Crucifixion
Place: Italy (Artist's nationality)
Date: 1401–1404
Medium: Tempera on panel
Dimensions: Panel: 37.6 × 72.4 cm (14 3/4 × 28 1/2 in.); Painted Surface: 33 × 68 cm (13 × 26 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
Reference Number: 1933.1033
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Joseph Archer Crowe and Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle, A History of Paintings in Italy, 2d ed., vol. 2, ed. by Robert Langton Douglas, London, 1903, p. 112 (Lord Northwick collection misprinted as “Laci Nouhurik”).
Bernard Berenson, The Central Italian Painters of the Renaissance, 2d ed., New York and London, 1909, p. 256.
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Manchester, Art Treasures of the United Kingdom, 1857, no. 26, as Giotto.
The Art Institute of Chicago, A Century in Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1 to November 1, 1933, no. 98.
Atlanta, GA, High Museum of Art, The “Gates of Paradise”: Lorenzo Ghiberti’s Renaissance Masterpiece, April 28-July 15, 2007; Art Institute of Chicago, July 28-October 13, 2007; Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 30, 2007-January 13, 2008 [Chicago Only].

John Rushout, second Baron Northwick, Thirlestane House, Cheltenham, by 1857 (according to the 1857 Manchester exhibition catalogue); sold Phillips at Thirlestane House, August 18, 1859, no. 1467, as Giotto, to Cox, Berners Street, for 13 guineas (according to 1859 Northwick collection catalogue, p. 20); Canon A. F. Sutton, Brant Broughton, by 1909 (according to Bernard Berenson, The Central Italian Painters of the Renaissance, 2d ed., New York and London, 1909, p. 256); sold Sotheby’s, London, June 25, 1924, no. 33 (ill.), as Giotto, to Oliver for £460 (according to annotated sales catalogue in the Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York); Robert Langton Douglas, London, 1924; sold by Langton Douglas to Martin A. Ryerson (d. 1932), Chicago, 1924 (according to a letter from Robert Langton Douglas to Martin A. Ryerson of November 11, 1924, and a receipt dated November 18, 1924, in the Ryerson papers, Archives, The Art Institute of Chicago); on loan to the Art Institute from 1924; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1933.

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