Allegory of Charity by Francesco de Mura
Francesco de Mura. Allegory of Charity, c. 1743–44. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
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Allegory of Charity

by Francesco de Mura

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.

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