Lot 50: Follower of Domenico Ghirlandaio (Florence 1448/49-1494)

Follower of Domenico Ghirlandaio (Florence 1448/49-1494) The Virgin Adoring the Christ Child with Saint John the Baptist tempera on panel, circular 38 3/8 in. (97.5 cm.) diameter

Chicago, The Renaissance Society, The University of Chicago, Religious Art from the Fourth Century to the Present Time, 1930, no. 19, as 'Mainardi'. Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Old and New Masters from Chicago Collections, 1935. Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Exhibition of the Ryerson Gift, 1938, as 'Mainardi'. Fort Wayne, Indiana, Fort Wayne Art Museum, Christmas Story in Art, 1953, as 'Sebastian Mainardi'.

Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Objects in the Museum, Part I, Sculpture and Painting, 3rd ed., Chicago, 1898, p. 124, as Domenico Ghirlandaio. R. van Marle, The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, The Hague, 1931, XIII, p. 222, no. 1, as Mainardi. W.R. Valentiner, Paintings in the Collection of Martin A. Ryerson, unpublished manuscript, 1932. 'Exhibition of the Ryerson Gift', Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago, XXXII, 1938, p. 3, as Mainardi. Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago. A Catalogue of the Picture Collection, Chicago, 1961, p. 266, as Mainardi. H. Huth, 'Italianische Kunstwerke im Art Institut von Chicago, USA', in Miscellanea Bibliothecae Hertzianae, Munich, 1961, p. 516, as Mainardi. B.B. Fredericksen and F. Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972, pp. 117, 344, as Mainardi. E. Fahy, Some Followers of Domenico Ghirlandaio, New York and London, 1976, p. 214, as plausibly by Benedetto Ghirlandaio. C. Lloyd, Italian Paintings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago. A Catalogue of the Collection, Chicago, 1993, pp. 100-102, illustrated.

with Ehrich Galleries, New York, by 1898, where purchased by Martin A. Ryerson, Chicago, and by descent to his widow, by whom bequeathed to The Art Institute of Chicago, 1937.