The Elysa provenance parsing tool

A screengrab from the Carnegie Museum of Art / Art Tracks project’s Elysa provenance parsing tool, showing the record for the Museum’s Portrait of a Man Holding a Book by Ambrosius Benson (64.11.7). The top part of the screen shows the provenance written as well-structured free text. In the middle on the left is a panel containing a list of all the parties involved in the provenance, with Baron Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza highlighted. In the middle on the right is a panel showing the part of the provenance when the painting was with the Baron as structured data. At the bottom is a panel showing the work’s entire provenance as a timeline, including a period where the painting could have been in the possession of any one of several different parties, and showing exhibitions at which it was displayed.