The Death of the Virgin

Provenance

D. P. Sellar, London; sold Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, June 6, 1889, no. 18, for 300 francs (for the price, see annotated copy of this sale catalogue, Topeka Public Library, Topeka, Kansas, and annotated copy of 1914 Sambon Collection sale catalogue, Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York); Jean Dollfus, Paris; sold Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, pt. 3, April 1–2, 1912, no. 51, p. 19 (ill.), as Florentine School, to Sambon for 20,000 francs (for buyer, see annotated copy of sale catalogue, Ryerson Library, The Art Institute of Chicago and, for price, see annotated copy of 1914 Sambon Collection sale catalogue, at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, as cited above); Arthur Sambon, Paris, 1912–14; sold Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, May 25–28, 1914, no. 213 (ill.), as Florentine School, to Trotti for 9000 francs (for price and buyer, see annotated copy of sale catalogue, Thomas J. Watson Library, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, as cited above). Marcel Nicolle, Paris; sold to Hermann Heilbuth, Copenhagen, by 1920 (see exhibition catalogue, Copenhagen 1920, no. 4). Ehrich Galleries, New York; sold to Martin A. Ryerson (d. 1932), Chicago, 1923 (invoice dated February 1, 1923, copy in curatorial files); on loan to the Art Institute from 1923; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1933.

The Death of the Virgin

Starnina (Gherardo di Jacopo)

1405–10

Accession Number

16177

Medium

Tempera on panel

Dimensions

43.6 × 67.6 cm (17 1/8 × 26 5/8 in.); Framed: 44.5 × 67.4 cm (17 1/2 × 26 1/2 in.)

Classification

tempera

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection