id: 124090 accession number: 1944.91 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1944.91 updated: 2021-06-29 06:36:08.851000 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: 1971-10-29T04:00:00 Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 29, 1971-January 2, 1972). title: Stories From Storage opening date: 2021-02-07T05:00:00 Stories From Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * London, British Institution (1855). Cat. no. 55. * Winter Exhibition of Old Masters. Royal Academy, Burlington House, London, U.K. (1877). Cat. no. 172. --- 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: The artist used gold to paint fine details of embroidery and individual strands of hair. digital description: wall 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. 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 to one of the two panels in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Compare the sculptural quality of the maidservant’s white drapery in the CMA’s picture with figures from the Met’s panels attributed to Michelangelo (below left) and Granacci (below right). Which one do you think it more closely resembles? --- 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: 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: --- 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