Saint John on Patmos,

1580s?

Cardinal Leopoldo de' Medici, Palazzo Pitti, Florence (until 1675; no. 198 in inventory of 1675 [ASF Guardaroba 826]; remained at Palazzo Pitti until 1707); by descent to Ferdinando de' Medici, Poggio a Caiano (1707-1713; no. 662 in inventory of 1710 [Guardaroba 1185]; remained at Poggio a Caiano until 1773); transferred to the Uffizi Gallery (1773); art market, Italy (1831; sold to Sanford); Reverend John Sanford, Florence and London (1831-1839; sale, Christie and Manson, London, March 9, 1839, lot 50, to Yates); Yates and Son, London; Major General Sir Claud Alexander, 1st Bt. of Ballochimyle, Mauchline, Scotland [b. 1831-d. 1899]; probably thence by descent (collection disposed of by trustees, ca. 1935/40; sold to Koetser); David M. Koetser, New York (ca. 1935/40-1942; sold to Mrs. Henry White Cannon for the Princeton University Art Museum).

• Rev. J. Sanford, Catalogue of paintings belonging to the Rev. J.S., collected in Italy from 1815 to 1837 ... To be ... disposed of by private contract ..., (London: Rev. J. Sanford?, 1838)., no. 36
• Four centuries of Venetian painting, (Toledo, OH?: Toledo Museum of Art, 1940)., no. 55
• Frank Jewett Mather, Jr., "Tintoretto: a hermit or poet", Record of the Museum of Historic Art, Princeton University 1, no. 1 (1942): p. 7-9., p. 7-9
• William E. Suida, "Clarifications and identifications of works by venetian painters", Art quarterly 9 (1946): p. 283-298., fig. 14
• Hans Tietze, Tintoretto: the paintings and drawings, (London: Phaidon Press, 1948)., p. 358; fig. 289
• Hans Tietze, "Bozzetti di Jacopo Tintoretto", Arte Veneta, Rivista di Storia dell'Arte 1951, 5 (1952): p. 55-64., p. 54-64; p. 62, fig. 60.
• Six Centuries of Landscape, (Montreal: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1952).
  , no. 15; p. 12 (illus.)
• John D. Morse, Old Masters in America: a comprehensive guide; more than two-thousand paintings in United States and Canada by forty famous artists, (Chicago: Rand McNally, 1955)., p. 87
• Benedict Nicolson, "The Sanford Collection," Burlington magazine 97, no. 628 (Jul., 1955): p. 207-214., p. 214, no. 53
• Venetian tradition: catalogue of the exhibition, (Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1956). , no. 48; pl. 30
• Bernard Berenson, Italian pictures of the Renaissance: a list of the principal artists and their works with an index of places: Venetian school, (New York: Phaidon Publishers, 1957). , p. 85
• Rodolpho Palluchini, "Tiziano, Tintoretto e Veronese a Toronto", Arte Veneta, Rivista di Storia dell'Arte 1959/1960, 13/14 (1960): p. 300., p. 300
• Titian, Tintoretto, Paolo Veronese, with a group of sixteenth-century Venetian drawings; a loan exhibition 12 February-13 March 1960, (Toronto: Art Gallery of Toronto, 1960)., no. 31
• Walter Hugelshofer, "Zeichnungen mit der Feder von Jacopo Tintoretto", Pantheon 20, no. 6 (Nov./Dec., 1962): p. 339-347., p. 345; fig. 4
• Landscape into art : a loan exhibition of paintings from the XV century to our day..., (Atlanta, GA: Atlanta Art Association Galleries, 1962)., no. 8 (illus.)
• "Carl Otto von Kienbusch, Jr. Memorial Galleries: given by Carl Otto von Kienbusch of the Class of 1906," Record othe Art Museum, Princeton University 25, no. 1/2 (1966): 15–19., p. 16 (illus.)
• Carlo Bernari and Pierluigi De Vecchi, L’opera completa del Tintoretto, (Milano: Rizzoli, 1970)., p. 130, no. 273; p. 131 (illus.)
• B. B. Fredericksen and F. Zeri, Census of pre-nineteenth-century Italian paintings in North American collections, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972)., p. 104
• Maria Letizia Strocchi, "Il gabinetto d' "Opere in piccolo" del Gran Principe Ferdinando a Poggio a Cajano", Paragone. Arte 26, no. 309 (1975): p. 115-126., fig. 65
• Maria Letizia Strocchi, "Il gabinetto d' "Opere in piccolo" del Gran Principe Ferdinando a Poggio a Cajano", Paragone. Arte 27, no. 311 (1976): p. 83-116., p. 90, no. 33
• Rudolfo Palluchini and Paolo Rossi, Tintoretto, Le opere sacre e profane, (Venezia: Alfieri, 1982)., vol. 1: p. 205
• Elisabeth Epe, Die Gemäldesammlungen des Ferdinando de’ Medici, Erbprinz von Toskana (1663-1713), (Marburg, Germany: Jonas, 1990)., p. 205, note 60; p. 257, no. 662
• Pier Luigi De Vecchi, Tintoretto e la favola di Leda : per il restauro di due dipinti degli Uffizi, (Italy: Gruppo Végé, 1994)., p. 47 (illus.); p. 51, note 28
• Miguel Falomir, Jacopo Tintoretto: actas del Congreso internacional Jacopo Tinotretto, (Madrid: Museo Nacional del Prado, 2009)., p. 91ff

• Six Centuries of Landscape (March 7 - April 13, 1952)