Two Putti

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

Major-General John Barton Sterling, London, by 1886 [Sterling listed as lender to the Royal Academy of Arts exhibition, London, 1886]

Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Venetian School, vol. 1 (London, 1957), p. 30.

Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti, “Studi sulla pittura lombarda del quattrocento,” Critica d’arte 3d ser., 8 (1949), p. 298 n. 29.

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.

bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1937.

Bernard Berenson, Pitture italiane del Rinascimento (Milan, 1936), p. 60.

William R. Valentiner, Paintings in the Collection of Martin A. Ryerson, unpub. MS [1932], Archives, The Art Institute of Chicago, n. pag.

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]

Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance (Oxford, 1932), p. 70.

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

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.

Christopher Lloyd, Italian Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1993), pp. 171–173, ill.

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.