Christ and Mary in the Garden (Noli me tangere)

Before 1911 or 1912, possibly the Royal Palace (Warsaw, Poland);* between November 1911 and August 1912, purchased in Germany by Paul S. Reinsch (Madison, WI); 1912, sold to Charles R. Crane (Chicago, IL); 1913, gifted to the University of Wisconsin-Madison; 1967, transferred to the Elvehjem Art Center [now called Chazen Museum of Art]. *The Royal Palace is listed in the Collections line of the object record curatorial sheet with the qualifier, “according to Reinsch…” but notes we have no other records to confirm this provenance line.

• Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Handbook of the Collection." Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Madison, 1990. no. 28
• Fredericksen, Burton B. and Federico Zeri. "Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections." Cambridge, MA: Harvard Press, 1972. pp. 9, 593
• Madison Art Association. "Collection of Paintings Owned by Paul S. Reinsch: Exhibition in the State Historical Library Building." Madison, WI: Madison Art Association, 1912. p. 6, no. 51

• 16th Century Masterpieces from Three Madison Collections: Madison Art Association, 11/13/1963–12/3/1963
• Collection of Paintings Owned by Paul S. Reinsch: The Madison Art Association, 9/26/1912–10/24/1912

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