Saint Helen Testing the True Cross

Ana Debenedetti, “A Recently Identified Painting by Tintoretto in the Victoria and Albert Museum,” Burlington Magazine, 155 (2013), pp. 19–24, figs. 25, 26, 32, 36.

W. R. Rearick, “Battista Franco and the Grimani Chapel,” Saggi e memorie di storia dell’arte 2 (1958–59), p. 119 n. 67.

Benent, Illinois, National Arts Foundation Museum, 1955, no cat.

Hans Tietze, “Bozzetti di Jacopo Tintoretto,” Arte veneta 5 (1951), pp. 57–58, ill.

Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago, 1932), p. 173.

given to the Art Institute, 1932.

Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 26 (1932), p. 60, ill.

the painting seems to have remained with the “The Discovery of the True Cross” until 1932, when it entered the collection of the Art Institute]

sold in his sale, Paul Cassirer and Théodore Fischer, Lucerne, September 1, 1931, no. 4, for Fr 9000 [according to an annotated copy of the sale catalogue in the Ryerson Library, Art Institute]. Böhler and Steinmeyer, New York, by 1932

Berlin, Kaiser-Friedrich-Museums-Verein, Germälde alter Meister aus Berliner Besitz, July–August 1925, no. 399b.

for price and buyer, see annotated copy of the sale catalogue in the Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York]. Robert Langton Douglas, London, by 1924 [according to the mount of a photograph in the Witt Library, London]. F. Hess, Berlin, by 1925 [lent to Berlin 1925]

“Rita Lydig Sale,” American Art News, 11, 26 (1913), p. 6.

sold by Langton Douglas to Mrs. Philip M. Lydig (née Rita de Acosta), New York, by 1913

Wilhelm R. Valentiner, Illustrated Catalogue of the Rita Lydig Collection (New York, 1913), no. 130, ill.

sold in her sale, American Art Association, New York, April 4, 1913, no. 130 to W. W. Seaman for $2000 [“Rita Lydig Sale,” 1913, p. 6

J. B. T., “The Lydig Collections,” American Art News, 11, 24 (1913), p. 6.

Wilhelm R. Valentiner, “Mrs. Lydig’s Library,” Art in America 1, 2 (1913), p. 69.

his sale, Christie’s, London, June 16, 1911, no. 67, to Robert Langton Douglas, for £273, along with the related painting “The Discovery of the True Cross” now in the Hyde Collection in Glens Falls, New York [see Art Prices Current 1911 and an annotated copy of the sale catalogue in the Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Art Prices Current, vol. 4 (London, 1911), p. 556.

Sir Thomas Andros de la Rue, Bart. (died 1911), London

Christopher Lloyd, Italian Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1993), pp. 239–42, ill.

Palluchini and Rossi, Tintoretto: L’opera Completa, vol. 2 (Milan, 1990), no. 96.

Rodolfo Pallucchini and Paola Rossi, Tintoretto: Le opere sacre e profane (Milan, 1982), vol. 1, p. 21, no. 96; vol. 2, fig. 123.

James K. Kettlewell, The Hyde Collection Catalogue (Glens Falls, New York, 1981), p. 81.

Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972), pp. 199, 402, 570.

Aldo Bertini, “Un’ignorata opera giovanile del Tintoretto: L’erezione del vitello d’oro,” Arte veneta 25 (1971), p. 261.

Carlo Bernari and Pierluigi De Vecchi, L’opera completa del Tintoretto, Classici dell’arte 36 (Milan, 1970), p. 134.

Hans Huth, “Italienische Kunstwerke im Art Institute von Chicago, USA,” in Miscellanea Bibliothecae Hertzianae (Munich, 1961), p. 518.