About the Artwork
The Betrayal of Christ
between 1437 and 1444
Sassetta
ca. 1400-1450
Italian
Unknown
Tempera, silver and gold leaf on poplar panel
Image (approx.): 14 5/16 × 23 5/16 inches (36.4 × 59.2 cm) Unframed (irreg.): 14 3/4 × 23 5/16 × 1 5/16 inches (37.5 × 59.2 × 3.4 cm) Framed: 27 5/8 × 32 5/8 inches (70.2 × 82.9 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund
46.56
Public Domain
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Provenance
Davenport Bromley (London, England);1927, (R. Langton Douglas, London, England);
gift to F. Mason Perkins (Assisi and Lastra a Signa, Italy);
1938, by inheritance to Mrs. F. Mason Perkins (London, England);
1946-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Van Marle, R. The Development of the Italian Schools of Paintings. Vol. 9: Late Gothic Painting in Tuscany. The Hague, 1928, p. 361.
Sandberg-Vavalà, E. La croce dipinta italiana e l'iconografia della passione. Verona, 1929, p. 341.
Pope-Hennessy, J. "A Passion Predella by Sassetta." Burlington Magazine 73 (1938): p. 49-50, pl. IIB
Pope-Hennessy, J. Sassetta. London, 1939, pp. 114-117, note 46.
Duveen Pictures in Public Collections of America. New York, 1941, no. 36 (ill.).
Richardson, E.P. "The Betrayal of Christ by Sassetta." Art Quarterly 9, no. 4 (Autumn 1946): pp. 352, 356-359 (ill.).
Richardson, E.P. "The Betrayal of Christ by Sassetta." Bulletin of the DIA 26, no. 1 (1947): pp. 8-10 (ill.).
Brandi, C. Quattrocentisti senesi. Milan, 1949, p. 192 note 44, p. 253, note to pl. 75.
Detroit Institute of Arts Masterpieces of Painting and Sculpture. Detroit, 1949, p. 44, (ill.).
Carli, E. Sassetta e il Maestro dell' Osservanza. Milan, 1957, pp. 125-126.
Lacalotte, M. L'information d'histoire de l'art 5 (1960): pp. 52 ff.
Richardson, E.P., ed. Treasures from the Detroit Institute of Arts, 3rd ed. Detroit, 1966, p. 69, (ill.).
Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts: A Checklist of the Paintings Acquired Before June 1965. Detroit, 1965, p. 97.
Vingt ans d'acquisitions au Musée du Louve 1947-1967. Exh. cat., Musée de l'Orangerie. Paris, 1967, pp. 133-134, cat. 396.
Berenson, B. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: A List of the Principal Artists and their Works with an Index of Places. Central Italian and North Italian Schools, vol. 1. London, 1968, p. 385 [ca. 1435-36.]
Fredericksen, B. and F. Zeri. Census of Pre-19th Century Italian Paintings in North American Collections. Cambridge, MA, 1972, p. 183.
European Paintings before 1500. Exh. cat., Cleveland Museum of Art. 1974, vol. 1, p. 124, cat. 43.
Retables italiens du XIIIe au XVe siècle. Exh. cat., Musée du Louvre. Paris, 1978, p. 33.
Sutton, D. "Robert Langton Douglas, Part III." Apollo 110 (July 1979): pp. 222-224 (fig. 7) (ill.).
Cummings, F., ed. Selected Works from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1979, p. 131, cat. 104 (ill.).
Gothic to Renaissance. European Painting 1300 - 1600 London, 1988, pp. 44-52, p. 46 (ill.).
Banker, J.R. "The Program for the Sassetta Altarpiece in the Church of S. Francesco in Borgo San Sepolcro." I Tatti Studies 6 (1991): pp. 31ff. (figs. 16-18).
Teuffel, C.G. von. "Niccolo di Segna, Sassetta, Piero della Francesca and Perugino: Cult and Continuity at Sansepolcro." Städel Jahrbuch 17 (1999): pp. 163-208, p. 176 (fig. 24).
Gordon, Dillian. The Fifteenth Century Italian Paintings, vol. I. London, 2003, pp. 350, 352-353.
Israëls, M., ed. Sassetta: the Borgo San Sepolcro Altarpiece, 2 vols. Villa I Tatti series no. 25. Florence and Leiden, 2009, vol. 1, pp. 337-341; vol. 2, pp. 418-421.
De Marchi, Andrea. "Il polittico di Sassetta per San Francesco a Sansepolcro perlustrato." Prospettiva 139-140 (July-October 2010): pp. 115-130.
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Sassetta, The Betrayal of Christ, between 1437 and 1444, tempera, silver and gold leaf on poplar panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund, 46.56.
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