The Adoration of the Magi

Provenance

Possibly Alexander Barker (died 1874), London [according to catalogue of the Leyland sale, though it is not the one described in Gustave Waagen, Galleries and Cabinets of Art in Great Britain, London, 1857, p. 71 as Dello Fiorentino (?), nor the tondo attributed to Filippo Lippi in the Barker sale, June 19, 1879, no. 489]. Frederick Richards Leyland, London, by 1892, as Filippino Lippi [Child 1892 illustrates the painting in his salon]; sold, Christie’s, London, May 28, 1892, lot 97, to Jeffrey [buyer listed in annotated catalogue at the Getty Research Center]. Emile Gavet, Paris, by 1894 [date of sale given in registrar’s record]; sold to Martin A. Ryerson (died 1932), Chicago, 1894; by descent to his wife Carrie Hutchinson Ryerson (1859–1937), Chicago, 1932 [Last Will and Testament of Martin A. Ryerson, Died August 11, 1932, copy in Institutional Archives, Art Institute of Chicago]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1937.

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