The Nativity. Fra Bartolommeo
1504/07
Oil on panel
Height: 340 mm (13.39 in). Width: 245 mm (9.65 in).
Art Institute of Chicago
Level Second Level
room Gallery 205
Accession number 2005.49
Object history
English: Sold through the Monastery of San Marco, Florence, to Domenico Perini, April 16, 1507; sent by Domenico Perini to France and possibly sold to Louis XII, King of France, along with a Noli me tangere now in the Louvre, according to a list of all Fra Bartolommeo's pictures compiled in 1516; Bedemeau de Buxerolles, Poitou. Tabarly collection, Blois, Pierre Landry, Paris, by 1955; his heirs, sold, Christie's, London, 11 July 2001, no. 68 to Haboldt, Paris; sold to AIC, 2005.
Exhibition history
English:
Paris, Galeries nationales, Grand Palais, France 1500: Entre Moyen Age et Renaissance, 2010-11, no. 200.
Art Institute of Chicago, Kings, Queens, and Courtiers: Art in Early Renaissance France, 2011, no. 115.
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