Sacrificial Scene

Provenance

Mr. Bromley-Davenport [inscription]. John Malcolm (died 1893), Poltalloch and London; his son-in-law, Honorable Alfred E. Gathorne-Hardy (died 1918), Newbury, Berkshire; his son, Geoffrey Gathorne-Hardy, Newbury, Berkshire; his cousin, Honorable Robert Gathorne-Hardy, Newbury, Berkshire; sold, Sotheby’s, London, November 24, 1976, Gathorne-Hardy sale, lot 6. British Rail Pension Fund; sold by Lexbourne Ltd., London, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1989.

Sacrificial Scene

Gian Francesco de Maineri

1489/90

Accession Number

75495

Medium

Pen and black ink with brush and gray-and-brown wash, heightened with lead white, partially oxidized, on cream laid paper, edge mounted to cream wove card

Dimensions

41.8 × 30 cm (16 1/2 × 11 13/16 in.)

Classification

ink with wash

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Purchased with funds provided by the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation