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John the Baptist being carried to Zacharias

John the Baptist being carried to Zacharias

c. 1510

attributed to Francesco Granacci

(Italian, 1469–1543)
Italy, 16th century
tempera and oil with gold on wood
Unframed: 76.2 x 33 cm (30 x 13 in.)
The Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection 1944.91
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

The artist used gold to paint fine details of embroidery and individual strands of hair.

Description

Did Michelangelo paint some of this work? This panel formed part of a series depicting the life of John the Baptist, with other panels located in New York City and Liverpool, England. Scholars believe that as many as five artists may have participated in creating the series and disagree about who painted this panel. Michelangelo Buonarotti, a lifelong friend of Francesco Granacci’s, may have contributed, perhaps in the drapery of the figure in white.
  • -between 1830-1837
    Marchese Giovanni Gerini, Palazzo Gerini, Florence, Italy, sold to Reverend John Sanford
    by 1837
    Reverend John Sanford [1777-1855], Florence, Italy and London, United Kingdom purchased from Marchese Gerini between 1830 and 1837;
    1844
    Lord Frederick Paul Methuen [1818-1891] (married John Sanford's daughter, Anna Horatia Caroline Sanford [1824-1899], by inheritance to the Methuen Family, Corsham Court, Chippenham, England
    1899
    (Christies, London, England, sale May 13, 1899, no. 85)
    -1911
    Mrs. Murray Guthrie [1872-1945] (sale: Christie's, London, March 11, 1911, no. 25, sold to S.W. Partridge)
    1911-1917
    (Partridge and Co., London, England, sold to Duveen Brothers)
    1917
    (Duveen Brothers, 1917)
    -1944
    Mrs. Francis F. Prentiss [1865-1944], Cleveland, OH, The Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection.
    1944-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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    Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: A List of the Principal Artists and Their Works, with an Index of Places. Oxford, United Kingdom : The Clarendon Press, 1932. Reproduced: p. 491
    Catalogue of the Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection : Bequest of Elisabeth Severance Prentiss, 1944. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1944. Reproduced: p. [14], Plate IV, cat. no. 13; Mentioned: p. 27-28, cat. no. 13 archive.org
    Catalogue of the Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection; Bequest of Elisabeth Severance Prentiss, 1944. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1944. Mentioned: p. 10, 27; Reproduced: no. 13, pl. iv
    Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: A List of the Principal Artists and Their Works, with an Index of Places : Florentine School. London, United Kingdom: Phaidon Press, 1963. Reproduced: 1, 189
    Pillsbury, Edmund P. Florence and the Arts; Five Centuries of Patronage. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1971. Reproduced: cat. no. 12
    Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), and Federico Zeri. Italian Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY: Distributed by New York Graphic Society, 1971. Mentioned and reproduced: 181-183
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    Berti, Luciano. Firenze e la Toscana dei Medici nell'Europa del Cinquecento: Il primato del disegno : [mostra, Palazzo Strozzi]. Milano, Italy: Electa, 1980. Mentioned: p. 124
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    DePrano, Maria. Art Patronage, Family, and Gender in Renaissance Florence: The Tornabuoni. Cambridge, United Kingdom; NY: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Reproduced: p. 197, fig. 9.1
    Fahy, Everett, Andrea De Marchi, and Elisabetta Sambo. Studi sulla pittura toscana del Rinascimento = Studies in Tuscan Reinassance painting. Bologna : Fondazione Federico Zeri ; Roma : Officina Libraria, 2020. Reproduced: Plate LVII, [p. 44] in t.1; and no. 446, p. 374 in t.2
  • Stories From Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021).
    Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 13-September 19, 1971).
    London, British Institution (1855). Cat. no. 55.
    Winter Exhibition of Old Masters. Royal Academy, Burlington House, London, U.K. (1877). Cat. no. 172.
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