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Jove Casts His Thunderbolts at the Rebellious Giants
Provenance
Unknown Illinois banker; given by banker to Jacob S. Sherman, Chicago, during the 1930s as collateral for a loan that was never repaid [according to Robert Parker Sherman, son of Jacob S. Sherman, telephone conversation with Martha Wolff, 23 July 2003, transcribed in curatorial file]; bequeathed by Jacob S. Sherman (died 1961) to the Art Institute, 1961.
Exhibition history
University of Chicago, David and Alfred Smart Gallery, "German and Austrian Painting of the Eighteenth Century," 20 April–11 June 1978, no. 26.
Publications
Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 405A. Edward A. Maser, "Five Early Paintings by Johann Michael Rottmayr," Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 2 (1967), pp. 19, 22–31, pl. 2. Edward A. Maser, "Fünf frühe Gemälde des Johann Rottmayr," Alte und Moderne Kunst 24 (1979), pp. 1–4, ill. no. 5. Erich Hubala, Johann Michael Rottmayr (Vienna, 1981) p. 182, no. G20, fig. 42. Daniel Fulco, "Myths of Defiance and Authority: the Gigantomachy and Fall of Phaeton in Ovidian Imagery of the Early Modern German States," in Re-inventeing Ovid's Metamorphoses, Karl A.E. Enenkel and Jan L. de Jong, eds. (Koninklijke Brill NV: Leiden, 2021), p. 319.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Johann Michael Rottmayr (Austrian, 1654–1730)
- Date
- c. 1695
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 81.3 × 125.2 cm (32 × 49 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Style
- 17th Century
- Place
- Austria
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Gift of Jacob S. Sherman
- Accession no.
- 1961.41
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