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    The Crucifixion
    Carlo Crivelli. The Crucifixion, c. 1487. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00001517

    The Crucifixion

    by Carlo Crivelli

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Inscriptions

    Inscribled: I N R I (at top of cross)

    Provenance

    Alexander Barker (died 1874) and his executors, London; sold Christie’s, London, June 21, 1879, no. 472, to Lesser for £100 16s [annotated catalogue at Frick Art Reference Library]. Baron E. de Beurnonville, Paris; offered for sale but bought in, Charles Pillet, Paris, May 9–16, 1881, no. 632; sold Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 21–22, 1883, no.126, for Fr 2,800 [Mireur 1911]. Joseph Spiridon, Rome, probably by 1883 [the catalogue of the 1929 Spiridon sale erroneously states that it was acquired from Beurnonville in 1876]; sold Cassirer and Helbing, Berlin, May 31, 1929, no. 15, pl. 23, to Knoedler for 250,000 marks [annotated catalogue at Getty Center]; sold by Knoedler, London, to Art Institute, 1929.

    Exhibition history

    The Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1933, no. 115. The Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1934, no. 27. The Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpiece of the Month, February 1942, no cat. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Massachuesetts, Ornament and Illusion: Carlo Crivelli of Venice, Oct. 22, 2015-Jan. 25, 2016.

    Publications

    George G. Redford, Art Sales: A History of Sales of Pictures and Other Works, vol. 2, London, 1888, p. 227. Algernon Graves, Art Sales from Early in the Eighteenth Century to Early in the Twentieth Century, vol. 1, London, 1918, p. 184. Franz Drey, Carlo Crivelli und seine Schule, Munich, 1927, pp. 89–90, 147, pl. LXXIV. W. R. Deusch, “Die Sammlung Spiridon – Paris,” Kunst und Künstler 27 (1929), p. 331 (ill.). Raimond van Marle, “Die Sammlung Joseph Spiridon,” Der Cicerone 21 (1929), p. 187, fig. 11. Luitpold Dussler, “Die italienischen Bilder der sammlung Spiridon,” Pantheon (1929), p. 166. Daniel Catton Rich, “A Crucifixion by Carlo Crivelli,” Art Institute Bulletin 23 (1929), pp. 145–47, cover ill.; reprinted as “Crivelli from the Spiridon Sale in Chicago,” Art News 28 (1929), pp. 3 (ill.), 6. Frida Schottmüller, “Bilder der Sammlung Spiridon,” Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst 63 (1929), p. 27(ill.). The Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection, 1932, p. 3 (ill.). Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, Oxford, 1932, p. 161. Alfred M. Frankfurter, ‘Art in the Century of Progress,” Fine Arts 20, 2 (1933), pp. 12 (ill.), 60. The Art Institute of Chicago, A Brief Illustrated Guide to the Collections, 1935, p. 20. Bernard Berenson, Pitture italiane del Rinascimento, Milan, 1936, p. 139. Raimond van Marle, The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, vol. 18, 1936, pp. 59–60 (ill.). The Art Institute of Chicago, A Picture Book: Masterpieces of Painting, XV and XVI Centuries in the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, 1946, pp. 10–11 (ill). R[odolfo] P[allucchini], “Dipinti veneziani a Chicago, Detroit, Toledo e Hartford,” Arte veneta 1 (1947), p. 147. The Art Institute of Chicago, An Illustrated Guide to the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, 1948, p. 75. Ugo Galetti and Ettore Camesasca, Enciclopedia della pittura italiana, vol. 1, Milan, 1950, p. 760. Pietro Zampetti, Carlo Crivelli nelle Marche, Urbino, 1952, p. 67. Frederick A. Sweet, “La pittura italiana al’Art Institute di Chicago,” Le vie del mondo: Rivista mensile del Touring Club Italiano 15 (1953), pp. 695 (ill.), 697. The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection, 1961, p. 111. Anna Bovero, Tutta la pittura del Crivelli, Milan, 1961, p. 77, pl. 113. Hans Huth, “Italienische Kunstwerke im Art Institute von Chicago, USA,” in Miscellanea Bibliothecae Hertzianae, Munich, 1961, p. 517. Pietro Zampetti, Carlo Crivelli, Milan, 1961, pp. 89–90, fig. 101. Pietro Zampetti, La pittura marchigiana da Gentile a Raffaello, Milan, 1969, p. 181; Eng. ed., Paintings from the Marches: Gentile to Raphael, London, 1971, p. 179. Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972, pp. 60, 292, 570. Dizionario enciclopedico Bolaffi dei pittori e degli incisori italiani, dall’ XI al XX secolo, 11 vols., Turin, 1972–76, vol. 4, p. 78. Pietro Zampetti, Carlo Crivelli, Florence, 1986, p. 284, pl. 73. Christopher Lloyd, Italian Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago; a catalogue of the collection, Chicago, 1993, pp. 72–5, ill. Gianno Galiardi, L’Annunciazione di Carlo Crivelli al Ascoli, exh. cat. Ascoli Piceno, 1996, p. 6. Ronald Lightbown, Carlo Crivelli, New Haven and London, 2004, pp. 350–2, 430. Stephen J. Campbell, ed., Ornament and Illusion: Carlo Crivelli of Venice, exh. cat., Boston, 2016, pp. 202-205.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Carlo Crivelli (Italian, about 1430–about 1495)
    Date
    c. 1487
    Medium
    Tempera on panel
    Dimensions
    75 × 55.2 cm (29 9/16 × 21 3/4 in.); Framed: 91.4 × 72.1 × 10.2 cm (36 × 28 3/8 × 4 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    painting
    Style
    15th century
    Place
    Italy
    Department
    Painting and Sculpture of Europe
    Credit line
    Wirt D. Walker Fund
    Accession no.
    1929.862

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