Virgin and Child with Two Angels

Alexander Barker (died 1847), London

“The Royal Academy Winter Exhibition: Old Masters and Deceased British Painters (First Notice),” Athenaeum 1 (1877), p. 23.

G. P. Boyce, London, 1874 to 1897

Gemälde alter Meister der Sammlung Weber (Hamburg, Lübeck [1897]), ill., n. p.

sold Christie’s, London, June 6, 8–11, 1874, no. 66, as Antonio Pollaiuolo, “The Madonna, seated with the infant Saviour upon her lap in the act of blessing, two saints in the background,” to G. P. Boyce for £84 [price and buyer given by Redford 1888

“The Royal Academy Winter Exhibition: Old Masters and Deceased British Painters (Fourth and Concluding Notice),” Athenaeum 1 (1877), p. 123.

sold to Consul Eduard F. Weber, Hamburg, 1897

Charles Sedelmeyer Gallery, Illustrated Catalogue of Fourth Series of 100 Paintings by Old Masters…, being a portion of the Sedelmeyer Gallery (Paris, 1897), p. 67, no. 57, fig. 57.

London, Royal Academy of Arts, The Winter exhibition of Works by the Old Masters…, 1877, no. 142.

the printed description from the sale catalogue is pasted on the back of the painting]

George Redford, Art Sales: A History of Sales of Pictures and Other Works of Art, vol. 2, London, 1888, p. 245.

Highland Park, Illinois, Immaculate Conception school, 1955, no cat.

Chicago, Tribune Building, 1952–53, no cat.

bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1937.

Bernard Berenson, Pitture italiane del Rinascimento (Milan, 1936), p. 87.

Art Institute of Chicago, Century of Progress, 1933, no. 111.

Alfred M. Frankfurter, “Art in the Century of Progress,” Fine Arts 20 (June 1933), pp. 11, 60, ill.

Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance (Oxford, 1932), p. 101.

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]

William R. Valentiner, “Paintings in the Collection of Martin A. Ryerson,” (unpub. MS, Archives, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1932), n. p.

Chicago, The University of Chicago, The Renaissance Society, Commemorative Exhibition from the Martin A. Ryerson Collection, 1932, no. 5.

sold to Martin A. Ryerson (died 1932), Chicago, 1917 [bill of sale, Art Institute archives]

New York, F. Kleinberger Galleries, Italian Primitives, 1917, no. 27.

Osvald Sirén, The Madonna and Child by Piero Pollaiuolo…from the Collection of the late Consul E. F. Weber in Hamburg (New York, 1916), n. p.

sold to Kleinberger, New York, 1916

E. Schaeffer, “La vendita della collezione Weber a Berlin,” Rassegna d’arte 12 (1912), p. 74.

sold Lepke, Berlin, February 20–22, 1912, no. 23, pl. 8, as Florentine School, c. 1475, for 40,000 marks [price in annotated catalogue at Getty Center, Los Angeles]. Arthur Tooth and Sons, London, by 1916 [according to Kleinberger records, Department of European Paintings, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York]

Paul Schubring, “La collezione Weber di Amburgo,” L’arte 15 (1912), p. 141.

“Der Versteigerung der Sammlung Weber,” Der Kunstmarkt 9 (1912), p. 196.

Karl Woermann, Wissenschaftl. Verzeichnis der älteren Gemälde der Galerie Weber in Hamburg (Dresden, 1907), pp. 22–23, no. 23.

Berlin, Verein Berliner Künstler, Ausstellung aus Berliner Privatbesitz, 1901, no cat.

Lisa Venturini, Francesco Botticini (Florence, 1994), p. 20, n. 55.

Christopher Lloyd, Italian Paintings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago; A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1993), pp. 45–49, ill.

Nicoletta Pons, Botticelli: catalogo completo (Milan, 1989), p. 100, no. 154, ill.

Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972), pp. 33, 331, 571.

Everett Fahy, ‘Some Early Italian Pictures in the Gambier-Parry Collection,” Burlington Magazine 109 (1967), p. 137.

Michael Levey and Gabriele Mandel, The Complete Paintings of Botticelli, Eng. ed., (New York, 1967), p. 88, no. 33, fig. 33.

Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Florentine School 2 vols, vol. 1 (London, 1963), p. 33.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 225.