Sacrifice of Cain and Abel, with God the Father Above

Provenance

Sold, Puttick & Simpson, London, May 15, 1914, part of lot 85, to William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower right, in black]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922 [stamp (Lugt 1230b), lower center on former mount, in black].

Sacrifice of Cain and Abel, with God the Father Above

Giorgio Vasari

1554/55

Accession Number

109161

Medium

Red chalk on tan laid paper

Dimensions

39.2 × 28.3 cm (15 7/16 × 11 3/16 in.)

Classification

chalk

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection