The Crucifixion

Provenance

John Rushout, second Baron Northwick, Thirlestane House, Cheltenham, by 1857 (according to the 1857 Manchester exhibition catalogue); sold Phillips at Thirlestane House, August 18, 1859, no. 1467, as Giotto, to Cox, Berners Street, for 13 guineas (according to 1859 Northwick collection catalogue, p. 20); Canon A. F. Sutton, Brant Broughton, by 1909 (according to Bernard Berenson, The Central Italian Painters of the Renaissance, 2d ed., New York and London, 1909, p. 256); sold Sotheby’s, London, June 25, 1924, no. 33 (ill.), as Giotto, to Oliver for £460 (according to annotated sales catalogue in the Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York); Robert Langton Douglas, London, 1924; sold by Langton Douglas to Martin A. Ryerson (d. 1932), Chicago, 1924 (according to a letter from Robert Langton Douglas to Martin A. Ryerson of November 11, 1924, and a receipt dated November 18, 1924, in the Ryerson papers, Archives, The Art Institute of Chicago); on loan to the Art Institute from 1924; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1933.

The Crucifixion

Taddeo di Bartolo

1401–04

Accession Number

16234

Medium

Tempera on panel

Dimensions

Panel: 37.6 × 72.4 cm (14 3/4 × 28 1/2 in.); Framed: 43.2 × 78.7 cm (17 × 31 in.)

Classification

tempera

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection