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Allegory of Charity
Exhibition history
London, Heim Gallery, May 13–August 28, 1971, no. 14. Detroit, Institute of Arts, The Golden Age of Naples: Art and Civilization under the Bourbons 1734–1805, Aug. 11–Nov. 1, 1981, no. 34; Art Institute of Chicago, Jan. 16–Mar. 8, 1982. Worcester, Massachusetts, Art Museum, Hope and Healing: Painting in Italy in a Time of Plague 1500–1800, Apr. 3–Sep. 25, 2005, cat. 9 (ill.). Winter Park, Florida, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, In the Light of Naples: The Art of Francesco de Mura, Sep. 17–Dec. 18, 2016, cat. 19; Madison, Chazen Museum of Art, Jan. 20–Apr. 2, 2017; Arlington, NY, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Apr. 21–July 2, 2017 [Winter Park and Madison only].
Publications
Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report, 1970–71 (Chicago: Art Institute, 1971), 26–27 (ill.). Country Life, June 3, 1971. Nicola Spinosa, Civiltà del '700 a Napoli. 1734-1799, exh. cat. vol. 1 (Firenze: Centro D, 1979), 196-97 cat. 90. The Golden age of Naples: Art and Civilization under the Bourbons 1734–1805, exh. cat. (Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1981), 129–130, no. 34. A Taste for Angels: Neapolitan Painting in North America 1650–1750, exh. cat. (New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1987), 262, fig. 114. Sandra Pinto, Arte di Corte a Torino da Carlo Emanuele II a Carlo Felice (Turin, 1987), 21. Mercedes Precerutti Garberi, Arte antica e moderna nelle collezioni della Banca Commerciale Italiana. Dal quattrocento al settecento (Milan, 1998), 262–63. Gauvin Alexander Bailey, et al., Hope and Healing. Painting in Italy in a Time of Plague 1500–1800, exh. cat. (Wocester, MA: Worcester Art Museum, 2005), 27, 194-195, cat. 9. Arthur R. Blumenthal, In the Light of Naples: The Art of Francesco de Mura, exh. cat. (Winter Park: The Cornell Fine Arts Museum; London: D Giles Limited, 2016), 24, 42n28, 78, 134-35 cat. 19, 142, 152.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Francesco de Mura (Italian, 1696-1782)
- Date
- c. 1743–44
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 139.5 × 134.6 cm (54 15/16 × 53 in.); Framed: 159.4 × 159.4 cm (62 3/4 × 62 3/4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- oil on canvas
- Style
- 18th Century
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Preston O. Morton Memorial Fund for Older Paintings
- Accession no.
- 1971.429
Provenance
Probably commissioned by Charles Emmanuel III, Turin [see Pinto 1987]. Peretti, Rome, by 1971 [according to Heim Commission Book at the Getty Research Institute]; Heim Gallery, London, 1971; sold to the Art Institute, 1971.
More by Francesco de Mura in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00000934
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