id: 124090
accession number: 1944.91
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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
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creation date: c. 1510
creation date earliest: 1505
creation date latest: 1515
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creditline: The Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection
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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
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CREATORS
* Francesco Granacci (Italian, 1469–1543) - artist
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measurements: Unframed: 76.2 x 33 cm (30 x 13 in.)
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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: 2021-02-07T05:00:00
Stories From Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021).
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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}
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PROVENANCE
Marchese Giovanni Gerini, Palazzo Gerini, Florence, Italy, sold to Reverend John Sanford
date: -between 1830-1837
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Reverend John Sanford [1777-1855], Florence, Italy and London, United Kingdom purchased from Marchese Gerini between 1830 and 1837;
date: by 1837
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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
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(Christies, London, England, sale May 13, 1899, no. 85)
date: 1899
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Mrs. Murray Guthrie [1872-1945] (sale: Christie's, London, March 11, 1911, no. 25, sold to S.W. Partridge)
date: -1911
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(Partridge and Co., London, England, sold to Duveen Brothers)
date: 1911-1917
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(Duveen Brothers, 1917)
date: 1917
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Mrs. Francis F. Prentiss [1865-1944], Cleveland, OH, The Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection.
date: -1944
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1944-
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RELATED WORKS
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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
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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. Oxford, United Kingdom : The Clarendon Press, 1932.
page number: Reproduced: p. 491
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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
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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: Reproduced: 1, 189
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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
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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
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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
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Holst, Christian von. Francesco Granacci. München, Germany: Bruckmann, 1974.
page number: Mentioned: p. 18, 24, 136-137, vol. II
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Fahy, Everett. Some Followers of Domenico Ghirlandajo. New York, NY: Garland, 1976.
page number: Reproduced: p. 189
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Walker Art Gallery (Liverpool). Foreign Catalogue. Liverpool, United Kingdom: Merseyside County Council, 1977.
page number: Reproduced: p. 86
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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
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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: Mentioned: p. 351-354; Reproduced: p. 352
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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
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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
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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
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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
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