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European Art
Explore image in Artist, follower of: Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci, called Perugino, Italian, active Umbria, ca. 1450–1523
Artist, possibly by: Sinibaldo Ibi, Italian, 1475–1550
The Baptism of Christ
ca. 1510
Tempera on panel
54.6 × 41.9 cm (21 1/2 × 16 1/2 in.)
University Purchase from James Jackson Jarves
1871.93
Status:
Not on view
Culture:
Italian, Umbria
Period:
16th century
Classification:
Paintings
Provenance:
Paris, to 1927; James Jackson Jarves Collection, Florence, to 1871; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography:
Mrs. Francis Steegmuller, The Two Lives of James Jackson Jarves (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1951), 303.
Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1972), 600.
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.
