id: 124090 accession number: 1944.91 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1944.91 updated: 2025-06-07 11:10:36.010000 John the Baptist being carried to Zacharias, c. 1510. Attributed to Francesco Granacci (Italian, 1469–1543). Tempera and oil with gold on wood; unframed: 76.2 x 33 cm (30 x 13 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection, 1944.91 title: John the Baptist being carried to Zacharias title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1510 creation date earliest: 1505 creation date latest: 1515 current location: creditline: The Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection copyright: --- culture: Italy, 16th century technique: tempera and oil with gold on wood department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: P - Italian 16th & 17th Century type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Francesco Granacci (Italian, 1469–1543) - artist --- measurements: Unframed: 76.2 x 33 cm (30 x 13 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage opening date: 1971-07-13T04:00:00 Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 13-September 19, 1971). title: Stories from Storage opening date: 2021-02-06T05:00:00 Stories from Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'London, British Institution (1855). Cat. no. 55.', 'opening_date': None} * {'description': 'Winter Exhibition of Old Masters. Royal Academy, Burlington House, London, U.K. (1877). Cat. no. 172.', 'opening_date': None} --- PROVENANCE Marchese Giovanni Gerini, Palazzo Gerini, Florence, Italy, sold to Reverend John Sanford date: -between 1830-1837 footnotes: citations: Reverend John Sanford [1777-1855], Florence, Italy and London, United Kingdom purchased from Marchese Gerini between 1830 and 1837; date: by 1837 footnotes: citations: 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 date: 1844 footnotes: citations: (Christies, London, England, sale May 13, 1899, no. 85) date: 1899 footnotes: citations: Mrs. Murray Guthrie [1872-1945] (sale: Christie's, London, March 11, 1911, no. 25, sold to S.W. Partridge) date: -1911 footnotes: citations: (Partridge and Co., London, England, sold to Duveen Brothers) date: 1911-1917 footnotes: citations: (Duveen Brothers, 1917) date: 1917 footnotes: citations: Mrs. Francis F. Prentiss [1865-1944], Cleveland, OH, The Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection. date: -1944 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1944- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Marle, Raimond van, and Charlotte van Marle. The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting. The Hague, Netherlands: M. Nijhoff, 1923. page number: Reproduced: p. 410, vol. xii url: 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. page number: Reproduced: p. 491 url: Catalogue of the Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection : Bequest of Elisabeth Severance Prentiss, 1944. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1944. page number: Reproduced: p. [14], Plate IV, cat. no. 13; Mentioned: p. 27-28, cat. no. 13 url: https://archive.org/details/Prentiss/page/n30 Catalogue of the Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection; Bequest of Elisabeth Severance Prentiss, 1944. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1944. page number: Mentioned: p. 10, 27; Reproduced: no. 13, pl. iv url: Francis, Henry. "Paintings in the Prentiss Bequest." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 31, no. 6, pt. 1 (June 1944): 87-89.

Published as "The Expulsion of Hagar" by Cosimo Rosselli page number: Mentioned: p. 87 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141132 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: Reproduced: 1, 189 url: Pillsbury, Edmund P. Florence and the Arts; Five Centuries of Patronage. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1971. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 12 url: 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. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: 181-183 url: Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972. page number: Mentioned: p. 130, 545, 574 url: Holst, Christian von. Francesco Granacci. München, Germany: Bruckmann, 1974. page number: Mentioned: p. 18, 24, 136-137, vol. II url: Fahy, Everett. Some Followers of Domenico Ghirlandajo. New York, NY: Garland, 1976. page number: Reproduced: p. 189 url: Walker Art Gallery (Liverpool). Foreign Catalogue. Liverpool, United Kingdom: Merseyside County Council, 1977. page number: Reproduced: p. 86 url: Berti, Luciano. Firenze e la Toscana dei Medici nell'Europa del Cinquecento: Il primato del disegno : [mostra, Palazzo Strozzi]. Milano, Italy: Electa, 1980. page number: Mentioned: p. 124 url: 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: Mentioned: p. 351-354; Reproduced: p. 352 url: Barriault, Anne B. Spalliera Paintings of Renaissance Tuscany: Fables of Poets for Patrician Homes. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994. page number: Mentioned: p. 156-157; pl. 16a url: Ingendaay Rodio, Martina. I migliori pennelli: i marchesi Gerini mecenati e collezionisti nella Firenze barocca : il palazzo e la galleria, 1600-1825. Milano, Italy : Biblion, 2013. page number: Mentioned: p. 75; Reproduced: fig. 35 url: DePrano, Maria. Art Patronage, Family, and Gender in Renaissance Florence: The Tornabuoni. Cambridge, United Kingdom; NY: Cambridge University Press, 2018. page number: Reproduced: p. 197, fig. 9.1 url: 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. page number: Reproduced: Plate LVII, [p. 44] in t.1; and no. 446, p. 374 in t.2 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.91/1944.91_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.91/1944.91_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.91/1944.91_full.tif