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Virgin and Child with Saint Elizabeth and the Infant Saint John the Baptist
Provenance
Rosa Maria Brender de Berenbau (of Montvideo, Uruquay), Paris, by 1955/56 [according to a letter of 20 March 1981 from Charles Sterling to Susan Wise in curatorial file]; sold to Sam Salz, New York, probably by 1961 [see Sterling 1961 and letter cited above]; given to the Art Institute, 1963.
Exhibition history
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, France in the Golden Age: Seventeenth-Century French Paintings in American Collections, 1982, cat. 9; traveled to the Art Institute of Chicago. Rennes, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Jacques Blanchard 1600-1638, March 5-June 15, 1998, cat. 13.
Publications
Charles Sterling, "Les peintres Jean et Jacques Blanchard," Art de France 1 (1961), pp. 86-87, no. 22 (ill.). "Accessions of American and Canadian Museums, January - March, 1964," Art Quarterly 27 (1964), pp. 205, 209 (ill.). John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (London, 1970), pp. 258 (ill.), 277. Christopher Wright, The French Painters of the Seventeenth Century (London, 1985), p. 142. Christopher Wright, The World's Master Paintings from the Early Renaissance to the Present Day: A Comprehensive Listing of Works by 1,300 Painters and a Complete Guide to Their Locations Worldwide (New York, 1991), vol. 1, p. 231, vol. 2, pp. 61, 566. Susan Wise in Susan Wise and Malcolm Warner, French and British Paintings from 1600 to 1800 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1996), pp. 5-8, ill.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jacques Blanchard (French, 1600–1638)
- Date
- c. 1628
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 94 × 122.4 cm (37 × 48 3/16 in.); Framed: 106.7 × 135.3 cm (42 × 53 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- oil on canvas
- Style
- 17th Century
- Place
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Gift of Sam Salz
- Accession no.
- 1963.43
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