Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00000925Education of Cupid
Inscriptions
Inscribed lower right: Diaz
Provenance
Brame; his sale, March 27, 1882, lot 10 for 7,800 francs [price according to Miquel and Miquel 2006]. Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, no. 1528 [Durand-Ruel stock number according to Registrars Office documents and Miquel 2006]. Presumably John Warne Gates (died 1911), St. Charles, Illinois; his widow Dellora Baker Gates (died 1918) [according to a letter from A. B. Hussander to the Art Institute dated February 8, 1924, copy in curatorial file]; by descent to their niece Dellora A. Norris (née Angell, married to Lester J. Norris) [according to the 1924 letter cited above]; on loan to the Art Institute in the name of her father, Robert Francis Angell, from 1923 [according to the loan receipt dated 1923]; given to the Art Institute, 1970.
Publications
W. A. P., “The Angell Collection,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 17, 6 (1923), p. 52. Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection, Supplement (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1971), p. 30. Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report 1970–1971 (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1971), p. 26. Pierre and Rolande Miquel, Narcisse Diaz de la Peña (1807–1876), vol. 2 (Courbevoie: ACR Édition Internationale, 2006), p. 434, cat. 2654 (ill.).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña (French, 1807–1876)
- Date
- c. 1859
- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Dimensions
- 37.8 × 24.6 cm (14 7/8 × 9 11/16 in.); Framed: 62.9 × 51.2 × 10.5 cm (24 3/4 × 20 1/8 × 4 1/8 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Style
- nineteenth century
- Place
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Gift of Dellora A. Norris
- Accession no.
- 1970.1002
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