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    Two Putti
    Matteo di Giovanni. Two Putti, 1490–1510. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00000836

    Two Putti

    by Matteo di Giovanni

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Inscriptions

    Inscribed: TVT [...] DIRI F (on quiver)

    Provenance

    Major-General John Barton Sterling, London, by 1886 [Sterling listed as lender to the Royal Academy of Arts exhibition, London, 1886]; sold Sotheby’s, London, April 29, 1914, no. 106, as School of Botticelli. Sold by Steinmeyer & Fils, Paris, to Martin A. Ryerson (d. 1932), Chicago, 1914; by descent to his wife Carrie Hutchinson Ryerson (1859–1937), Chicago, 1932 [Last Will and Testament of Martin A. Ryerson, Died August 11, 1932, copy in Institutional Archives, Art Institute of Chicago]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1937.

    Exhibition history

    London, Royal Academy of Arts, Works by the Old Masters, and by Deceased Masters of the British School, 1886, no. 173, as Italian School.

    Publications

    Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance (Oxford, 1932), p. 70. Bernard Berenson, Pitture italiane del Rinascimento (Milan, 1936), p. 60. Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Venetian School, vol. 1 (London, 1957), p. 30. William R. Valentiner, Paintings in the Collection of Martin A. Ryerson, unpub. MS [1932], Archives, The Art Institute of Chicago, n. pag. Kate Lancaster Brewster, “The Ryerson Gift to The Art Institute of Chicago,” Magazine of Art 31 (February 1938), p. 97. René Brimo, Art et goût: L’Evolution du goût aux Etats-Unis d’après l’histoire des collections (Paris, 1938), p. 92. Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti, “Studi sulla pittura lombarda del quattrocento,” Critica d’arte 3d ser., 8 (1949), p. 298 n. 29. Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 226. Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972), pp. 139, 503, 571. Christopher Lloyd, Italian Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1993), pp. 171–173, ill. Carl Brandon Strehlke, review of Italian Paintings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago. A Catalogue of the Collection by Christopher Lloyd, Burlington Magazine 136 (September 1994), p. 626.

    Open-access museum data

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Matteo di Giovanni (Italian, c. 1430–1495)
    Date
    1490–1510
    Medium
    Tempera or oil on panel
    Dimensions
    46.3 × 37.5 cm (18 1/4 × 14 3/4 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    tempera
    Style
    15th century
    Place
    Italy
    Department
    Painting and Sculpture of Europe
    Credit line
    Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
    Accession no.
    1937.1001

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