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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    St. John of Matha and St. Felix of Valois Ransoming Christian Slaves by Franz Xavier Karl Palko
    Franz Xavier Karl Palko. St. John of Matha and St. Felix of Valois Ransoming Christian Slaves, c. 1745. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00000851

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    St. John of Matha and St. Felix of Valois Ransoming Christian Slaves

    by Franz Xavier Karl Palko

    Inscriptions

    Inscribed verso: Franz C. Palko

    Exhibition history

    Sarasota, Florida, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Central Europe: 1600–1800, January 27–February 27, 1972, cat. 105. David and Alfred Smart Gallery, The University of Chicago, German and Austrian Painting of the Eighteenth Century, April 20–June 11, 1978, cat. 23. Salzburger Barockmuseum, Salzburg, Franz Karl Palko (1724–1767): Ölskizzen, Zeichnungen und Druckgraphik, June 10–August 27, 1989, cat. 2.

    Publications

    Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report (1966–67), p. 27. Edward A. Maser, “A Modello by Franz Xaver Karl Palko,” Pantheon 28, no. 2 (1970), pp. 118–120, 121 (color ill.), pp 123, 124. Oldrich J. Blazicek “Böhmisch-mährische und ungarische Kunst,” in Die Kunst des 18. Jahrhunderts, ed. Harald Keller (Berlin: Propyläen Verlag, 1971), pp. 259-260, cat. 154 (ill.). Pavel Preiss, “Franz Karl Palko als Zeichner,” Bulletin du Musée Hongrois des Beaux-Arts 45 (1975), p. 71. Bruno Bushart, “Der lyrische Maulbertsch,” in Imagination und Imago: Festschrift Kurt Rossacher: Zum 65. Geburtstag von Kurt Rossacher und zum Zehnjähre Bestandjubiläum des Salzburger Barockmuseums, ed. Leopold Netopil and Franz Wagner (Salzburg, 1983), pp. 29-30. Jane Turner, ed., The Dictionary of Art vol. 23 (New York, 1996), p. 855. Pavel Preiss, Frantisek Karel Palko: Zivot a dilo malire sklonku stredoevropskeho baroka a jeho bratra Frantiska Antonina Palka (Prague: Narodni Galerie Sbirka Stareho Umeni), 1999), pp. 62 (color ill.), 281 (cat. O-12).

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Franz Xavier Karl Palko (Austrian, 1724–1767)
    Date
    c. 1745
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    94.2 × 47 cm (37 1/16 × 18 1/2 in.); Framed: 103.6 × 56.6 × 7.7 cm (40 3/4 × 22 1/4 × 3 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    oil on canvas
    Style
    18th Century
    Place
    Austria
    Department
    Painting and Sculpture of Europe
    Credit line
    Bequest from the Estate of Bertha C. Loomis
    Accession no.
    1966.550

    Provenance

    Probably Edwin Cooley Loomis (died 1925), Hyde Park, Illinois; his widow Bertha C. Loomis (1871–1966), Winnetka, Illinois; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1966.

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