The Way to Calvary
Reopening exhibition, Cincinnati Art Museum, January-February 1930.
The Taste of Connoisseurs: A loan exhibition for the benefit of Spence-Chapin Adoption Service, French and Company, New York, October 7-25, 1958.
Masterpieces of Religious Art, Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS, December 1, 1967-January 30, 1968, no. 28.
Uceda family [1];
By descent to the Duke of Estremera, Spain [2];
Acquired in Spain by the dealer Lionel Harris, London, by July 13, 1928 [3];
Purchased from Lionel Harris by French and Company, New York, stock no. 32472, July 13, 1928-April 18, 1934 [4];
Purchased from French and Company by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1934.
NOTES:
[1] According to background information on the French & Co. invoice, dated April 16, 1934, NAMA curatorial files, this was owned by “the noble Uceda family in whose possession the tapestry had been for over a century.”
[2] Ibid. This may be Iván de Bustos y Ruiz de Arana, 12th Duke of Estremera (1892-1963), Madrid.
[3] According to a typewritten note in the Nelson-Atkins Registration file, H. C. Marillier, Consultant Adviser on Tapestries, London, wrote: “The Calvary piece, as you probably know, is one of a set of four which were brought from Spain by Mr. Lionel Harris of London, and passed into the possession of French & Co.”
[4] Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Photo Archive, Textiles-Tapestries-Southern Netherlands, 97.P.7, box 26.
“Notes of the Month,” International Studio 95 (March 1930), 59-60, (repro.).
“Kansas City Gets Gothic Tapestry of 1510,” Art Digest, 8, no. 19 (August 1, 1934), 9, (repro.).
“Kansas City Acquires an Important Gothic Tapestry,” The Art News, 32, no. 39 (August 18, 1934) 3, (repro.).
Phyllis Ackerman, “An Important Early XVIth Century Tapestry,” Apollo 21, no. 122 (February 1935), 94-97, (repro.).
The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, The William Rockhill Nelson Collection, 2nd ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1941), 77, (repro.).
The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, The William Rockhill Nelson Collection, 3rd ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1949). 93, (repro.).
M. L. D’Otrange Mastai, “An Early Brussels Panel of the Passion,” Connoisseur 138, no. 555 (September 1956), 59, (repro.).
Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 57, (repro.).
Masterpieces of Religious Art, exh. cat. (Wichita, KS: Wichita Art Museum, 1967), 58-59, (repro.).
Ross E. Taggart, George L. McKenna and Marc F. Wilson, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 2, Art of the Orient, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 72, (repro.).
Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 143, (repro.).
Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 51, (repro.).
