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accession number: 1937.577
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The Sacrifice of Isaac, c. 1527. Andrea del Sarto (Italian, 1486–1530). Oil on wood; framed: 208 x 171 x 12.5 cm (81 7/8 x 67 5/16 x 4 15/16 in.); unframed: 178 x 138 cm (70 1/16 x 54 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Delia E. Holden and L. E. Holden Funds 1937.577
title: The Sacrifice of Isaac
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creation date: c. 1527
creation date earliest: 1522
creation date latest: 1532
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creditline: Delia E. Holden and L. E. Holden Funds
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culture: Italy, Florence, 16th century
technique: oil on wood
department: European Painting and Sculpture
collection: P - Italian 16th & 17th Century
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Andrea del Sarto (Italian, 1486–1530) - artist
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measurements: Framed: 208 x 171 x 12.5 cm (81 7/8 x 67 5/16 x 4 15/16 in.); Unframed: 178 x 138 cm (70 1/16 x 54 5/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition
opening date: 1936-06-26T04:00:00
The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936).
title: The Silver Jubilee Exhibition
opening date: 1941-06-23T04:00:00
The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).
title: Art and Humanism in the Renaissance
opening date: 1962-01-23T05:00:00
Art and Humanism in the Renaissance. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 23-February 25, 1962).
title: Leonardo, Michelangelo and the Renaissance in Florence
opening date: 2005-05-27T00:00:00
Leonardo, Michelangelo and the Renaissance in Florence. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ont.,, Canada (organizer) (May 27-September 5, 2005).
title: Masterpieces of European Painting from The Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 2006-11-08T00:00:00
Masterpieces of European Painting from The Cleveland Museum of Art. Frick Collection, New York, NY (organizer) (November 8, 2006-January 28, 2007).
title: Masterpieces of European Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 2007-03-29T00:00:00
Masterpieces of European Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage, Beachwood, OH (March 29-July 8, 2007).
title: Andrea del Sarto: The Renaissance Workshop in Action
opening date: 2015-06-23T00:00:00
Andrea del Sarto: The Renaissance Workshop in Action. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (organizer) (June 23-September 13, 2015).
title: Pier Francesco Foschi (1502-1567) Florentine Painter
opening date: 2023-11-27T05:00:00
Pier Francesco Foschi (1502-1567) Florentine Painter. Galleria dell’Accademia di Firenze, Florence, Italy (organizer) (November 27, 2023-March 10, 2024).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Winter Exhibition. Burlington House, Royal Academy, London, United Kingdom (1882).', 'opening_date': '1882-01-01T04:56:02Z'}
* {'description': 'Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1971).', 'opening_date': '1971-01-01T05:00:00Z'}
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PROVENANCE
Cardinal Carlo de' Medici, Florence
date: By 1649
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Possibly the Montalvi Collection, Florence
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*
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Possibly the Peruzzi Collection, Florence
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*
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Zondadari Collection, Florence
date: By 1829
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See Biadi, 1829
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William Cave, died 1858 (Brentry House, near Bristol, bought in Florence in 1846), by inheritance to his wife.
date: 1846 - 1858
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* Unsold, Christie's, London, June 29, 1854, lot 77
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Mrs. William Cave
date: 1858
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Sold, Christie's, London, June 22, 1858, lot 102
date: 1858
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Possibly Peters
date: 1858 - 1882
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George Cornwall Legh, High Legh, Co. Chester
date: 1882 - ?
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* According to Royal Academy exhibition catalogue, Winter 1882, no. 206, "purchased by George Cornwall Legh in 1862 at Florence; in the Tordanari collection"
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Lieutenant Colonel Henry Cornwall Legh, High Legh, Co. Chester
date: ? - 1935
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Sold at Sotheby's, London, May 21, 1935, to Spencer Samuels
date: 1935
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Spencer Samuels, T. Harris, London, and Durlacher Brothers, New York
date: 1935 - 1937
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1937 -
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Biadi, Luigi. Notizie inedite della vita dA̕ndrea del Sarto, raccolte da manoscritti. Firenze, Italy: Tip. Bonducciana, 1831.
page number: Reproduced: p. 163, no. 2
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Reumont, Alfred von. Andrea del Sarto. Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, 1835.
page number: Mentioned: P.183
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Venturi, Adolfo. La R. Galleria Estense in Modena. Modena: P. Toschi, 1882.
page number: Mentioned: P. 257
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page number: Mentioned: V. II, P. 251
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Vasari, Giorgio. Le opere di Giorgio Vasari. Firenze: G.C. Sansoni, 1906.
page number: Mentioned: Vol. V, P. 52
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Guinness, H. Andrea Del Sarto. London, United Kingdom: G. Bell, 1907.
page number: Mentioned: p. 74-75
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Graves, Algernon. Century of Loan Exhibitions 1813-1912. London: Graves, 1913.
page number: Mentioned: Vol. III, p. 1198
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.
page number: Reproduced: p. 406; Mentioned: p. 407-409
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Francis, Henry S. "An Unfinished Version of the 'Sacrifice of Abraham' by Andrea del Sarto." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art XXV, no. 3 (March, 1938):39-42.
page number: Reproduced: p. 37; Detail: p.38
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"Au Cleveland Museum of Art." Mouseion. (Avril 1938) 13-14.
page number: Mentioned: p. 13
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Gibson, Katharine. Pictures to Grow Up With. New York, NY: Studio Publications, 1942.
page number: Reproduced: p. 90
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Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1945.
page number: Reproduced: p. 52
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAPaintings1945/page/n60
Coe, Nancy. The History of the Collecting of European Paintings and Drawings in the City of Cleveland. Thesis M.A. Oberlin College, 1956.
page number: Reproduced: Vol. II, P. 216, no. 21
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 407
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n75
Härth, Isolde. "Zu Andrea Del Sartos "Opfer Abrahams"." Mitteilungen Des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz 8, no. 3 (1959): 167-73.
page number: Mentioned: P. 167, n. 2
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27652062.
Wescher, Paul. La prima idea: die Entwicklung der Ölskizze von Tintoretto bis Picasso. München, Germany: F. Bruckmann, 1960.
page number: Reproduced: p. 19, pl. 3, fig. 2
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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 : Florentine School. London, United Kingdom: Phaidon Press, 1963.
page number: Mentioned: p. 1, 7
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Freedberg, S. J. Andrea Del Sarto. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1963.
page number: Reproduced: vol. I, p. 77-70, figs. 179-184;
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Jaffe, Michael. "The Figurative Arts of the West, ca. 1400-1800." Apollo: The International Magazine for Collectors 75, no. 22 (1963):
page number: Mentioned: p. 458; Reproduced: fig. 4, p. 460
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Shearman, John K. G. Andrea Del Sarto. Oxford, United Kingdom: Clarendon Press, 1965.
page number: Reproduced: p. 110-111, pl. 146, 148 a and b, vol. I; p. 216, no. 79. vol. II
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
page number: Reproduced: p. 92
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n116
Hillyer, V. M., and E. G. Huey. Fine Art; [the Last Two Hundred Years]. New York, NY: Meredith Press, 1966.
page number: Reproduced: p. 78
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Coe, Ralph T. "Rubens in 1614: 'The Sacrifice of Abraham.'" The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum Bulletin IV, no. 7 (December 1966): 1-22.
page number: Mentioned: P. 2; reproduced: P.3, fig. 1
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Cleveland Museum of Art. Selected Works: Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Museum, 1967.
page number: Reproduced: no. 140
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Murray, Linda. The High Renaissance. New York: F.A. Praeger, 1967.
page number: Reproduced: P. 160, fig. 118
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
page number: Reproduced: p. 92
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n116
Cleveland Museum of Art, and Berthold Fricke. The Cleveland Museum of Art. Hannover: Knorr & Hirth, 1970.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 44-45
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Avery, Catherine B., ed. The New Century Italian Renaissance Encyclopedia. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1972.
page number: Mentioned: P. 42
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Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1972.
page number: Mentioned: P. 8, 255, 573
url:
Lurie, Ann Tzeutschler. "Agnolo Bronzino: Portrait of a Young Lady." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art LXI, no. 1 (January, 1975):3-13.
page number: Detail Reproduced: p. 6
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Fader, Martha Alice Agnew. Sculpture in the Piazza Della Signoria: As Emblem of the Florentine Republic. Thesis Ph.D. Ann Anbor, MI: University of Michigan, 1977.
page number: Reproduced: p. 339, fig. 27
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page number: Reproduced: p. 107
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n127
Vos, Rik. Lucas van Leyden. Bentveld, Netherlands: Landshoff, 1978.
page number: Mentioned: p. 56-57; Reproduced: fig. 80
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Hall, Marcia B. Color and Meaning: Practice and Theory in Renaissance Painting. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
page number: Reproduced: p. 147, fig. 47
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Masterpieces from East and West. New York, NY: Rizzoli International, 1992.
page number: Reproduced: p. 109
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Natali, Antonio. Andrea Del Sarto. New York, NY: Abbeville Press Publishers, 1999.
page number: Reproduced: p. 183, no. 179
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May, Sally Ruth, Jane Takac, and Barbara J. Bradley. Knockouts: A Pocket Guide. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001.
page number: Mentioned: p. 50; Reproduced: p. 50, 51
url:
Keiith, Larry. "Andrea del Sarto's 'The Virgin and Child with Saint Elizabeth and Saint John the Baptist': Technique and Critical Reception." National Gallery Technical Bulletin 22 (2001): 42-53.
page number: Mentioned: P. 50; Reproduced: P. 50-51, pl. 7 & 9
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Franklin, David, Louis Alexander Waldman, and Andrew Butterfield. Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, and the Renaissance in Florence. Ottawa, Ontario: National Gallery of Canada, 2005.
page number: Mentioned: p. 150; Reproduced: fig. 40
url:
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url:
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page number: Mentioned & reproduced: p. 4
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2006-10/page/4/
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page number: Mentioned: p. 20
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Wetering, Ernst van de. Rembrandt: The Painter at Work. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Amsterdam University Press, 2009.
page number: Reproduced: p. 32, fig. 35
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Hout, Nico van, and Ted Alkins. The unfinished painting. 2012. Ghent, Belgium: Ludion, 2012.
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Pontormo, Jacopo da, Bastian Eclercy, and Ralf Bormann. Pontormo: Meisterwerke des Manierismus in Florenz. Hannover, Germany: Landesmuseum Hannover, 2013.
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url:
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url:
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page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 123-142
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url:
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url:
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url:
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