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Venus and Cupid
Provenance
Private collection, Florence [unsubstantiated record in curatorial file]; M. and C. Sestieri, Rome, by 1964; sold to Art Institute, 1964.
Exhibition history
San Francisco, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Man: Glory, Jest, and Riddle, a Survey of the Human Form through the Ages, November 10, 1964 - January 3, 1965, no. 122.
Publications
The Art Institute of Chicago. Annual Report, 1963–4, (Chicago, 1964) p. 19. John Maxon, “Some Recent Acquisitions,” Apollo 84 (1966), p. 221 ill. John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (London and New York, 1970), pp. 259, 287 ill. Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972), pp. 206, 476, 571. Rodolfo Pallucchini, La pittura veneziana del seicento (Milan, 1981), vol. 1, p. 119.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Alessandro Turchi (Italian, 1578–1649)
- Date
- c. 1630
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 115.8 × 158.8 cm (45 9/16 × 62 1/2 in.); Framed: 137.2 × 180.4 × 6.4 cm (54 × 71 × 2 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- oil on canvas
- Style
- 17th Century
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection
- Accession no.
- 1964.65
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