Saint Francis before the Pope (The Approval of the Franciscan Rule)

Provenance

Private collection, Città di Castello, Umbria, possibly that of Count Donino Pierleoni (according to Frederick Mason Perkins, “Una tavola d’altare di Spinello Aretino,” Rassegna d’arte 18 (1918), p. 6 n. 4 and Giovanni Magherini Graziani, L’arte a Città di Castello, Città di Castello, 1897, p. 159 n. 5); sold by a dealer in Città di Castello to Horace Morison, Boston, by 1915 (according to Frederick Mason Perkins, see above; a letter from Morison to Martin A. Ryerson of December 17, 1915, indicates that Morison owned the painting by that time, Archives, The Art Institute of Chicago); sold by Morison to Martin A. Ryerson (d. 1932), Chicago, 1916 (according to a letter from Morison to Ryerson of February 16, 1916, Archives, The Art Institute of Chicago); intermittently on loan to the Art Institute from 1916; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1933.

Saint Francis before the Pope (The Approval of the Franciscan Rule)

Spinello Aretino

1390–1400

Accession Number

16228

Medium

Tempera on panel

Dimensions

88.7 × 62.9 cm (34 7/8 × 24 3/4 in.); Framed: 105.4 × 79.4 cm (41 1/2 × 31 1/4 in.)

Classification

tempera

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection