Sacrificial Scene

his son, Geoffrey Gathorne-Hardy, Newbury, Berkshire

his cousin, Honorable Robert Gathorne-Hardy, Newbury, Berkshire

Mr. Bromley-Davenport [inscription]. John Malcolm (died 1893), Poltalloch and London

Suzanne Folds McCullagh, “‘A Lasting Monument’: The Regenstein Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26, 1 (2000), p. 12.

Suzanne Folds McCullagh, "Never Dormant: Drawings in Chicago," Master Drawings (2000).

Laura M. Giles, “Sacrificial Scene, 1489/90,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26, 1 (2000), pp. 14-15, no. 1.

Treasures from The Art Institute of Chicago, selected by James N. Wood, with commentaries by Debra N. Mancoff (Chicago, 2000), p. 90 (ill.).

Sergio Ortolani, Cosmè Tura, Francesco del Cossa, Ercole de’ Roberti (Milan, 1941), p. 191 (ill.).

Frits Saxl, "Pagan Sacrifice in the Italian Renaissance," Journal of the Warburg Institute 2 (1938-1939), p. 352 (ill.).

Roberto Longhi, Officina ferrarese (Florence, 1934), p. 170, n. 89.

Ferrara, Reale Accademia d’Italia, Palazzo dei Diamanti, "Catalogo della Esposizione della Pittura Ferrarese del Rinascimento," 1933, cat. 239, as Ercole de’ Roberti.

Arthur E. Popham, Italian Drawings Exhibited at the Royal Academy, Burlington House, London (London, 1931), p. 42, no. 150 (ill.).

Lord Balniel and Kenneth Clark, A Commemorative Catalogue of the Exhibition of Italian Art Held in the Galleries of the Royal Academy, Burlington House, London, January-March 1930 (London, 1931), p. 239, no. 752.

Aldofo Venturi, "Scelta di rari disegni nei musei d’Europa," L’Arte, 29 (1926), p. 7 (ill.).

Georg Gronau, "Ercole (di Giulio Cesare) Grandi," Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Kunstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart 14 (Leipzig, 1921), p. 507.

his son-in-law, Honorable Alfred E. Gathorne-Hardy (died 1918), Newbury, Berkshire

Edmund G. Gardener, The Painters of Ferrara (London, 1911), p. 224.

Josef Schoenbrunner and Josef Meder, Handzeichnungen alter meister aus der Albertina und anderen Sammlungen 9 (Vienna, 1896-1908), no. 1046 (ill.).

Alfred E. Gathorne-Hardy, Descriptive Catalogue of the Drawings in the Possession of the Hon. A. E. Gathorne-Hardy (London, 1902), no. 39.

London, Royal Academy of Arts, "Exhibition of Italian Art, 1200-1900," 1930, cat. 601, as Ercole di Giulio Cesare Grandi.

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Laura Giles, in Burton L. Dunbar and Edward J. Olszewski, Drawings in Midwestern Collections I (Columbia, Mo., and London, 1996), pp. 68-71, no. 13 (ill.).

James N. Wood and Sally Ruth May, The Art Institute of Chicago: The Essential Guide (Chicago, 1993), p. 202 (ill.).

Joseph Manca, The Art of Ercole de’ Roberti (Cambridge, 1992), pp. 181-82, no. R27 (ill.).

Kristen Lippincott, "A Masterpiece of Renaissance Drawing: A Sacrificial Scene by Gian Francesco de’ Maineri," The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 17 (1991), pp. 6-21 (ill.).

New York, The Frick Collection, "From Pontormo to Seurat: Drawings Recently Acquired by The Art Institute of Chicago," April 23-July 7, 1991, n.p., cat. 1; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, September 10, 1991-January 5, 1992.

sold by Lexbourne Ltd., London, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1989.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "New Acquisitions: Old Master Drawings of the 15th-18th Centuries," 1989-1990.

David Alan Brown, "Maineri and Marmitta as Devotional Artists," Prospettiva, 53-56 (1988-1989), pp. 302 and 306, n. 21.

Maria Grazia Vaccari, Maestri Emiliani del Quattro e Cinquecento (Florence, 1980), no. 1 (ill.).

Victor Ieronim Stoichita, "Deux oeuvres ferraraises au Musée d’Art de la République Socialiste de Roumanie," Part 2, "Zonae Francesco da Parma pictore egregio," Revue Roumanie d’Histoire de l’Art 16 (1979), p. 70.

Victor Ieronim Stoichita, "Deux oeuvres ferraraises au Musée d’Art de la République Socialiste de Roumanie," Revue Roumanie d’Histoire de l’Art 15 (1978), p. 41 (ill.).

sold, Sotheby’s, London, November 24, 1976, Gathorne-Hardy sale, lot 6. British Rail Pension Fund

Silla Zamboni, Pittori di Ercole I d’Este: Giovan Francesco Maineri, Lazzaro Grimaldi, Domenico Panetti, Michele Coltellini (Milan, 1975), pp. 12-13, and 56, no. 33 (ill.).

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