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    The Dream of Paris by Monogrammist PG
    Monogrammist PG. The Dream of Paris, 1536. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00001086

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    The Dream of Paris

    by Monogrammist PG

    Inscriptions

    Inscribed on paper attached to central tree trunk: PARIS / TRAM; in ligature on central tree trunk: 1 O.W. / 1536 / PG (or GP)

    Exhibition history

    New York, Kleinberger, Loan Exhibition of German Primitives for the Benefit of the American Red Cross, 1928, no. 51, as Georg Pentz [sic]. Art Institute of Chicago, Loan Exhibition of Old Masters, 1928–29 (no cat.). Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1934, no. 14, as attributed to Matthias Gerung.

    Publications

    “Early German Exhibition at Kleinberger’s,” Art News 27, 6 (1928), p. 5. Frank Jewett Mather, Jr., “An Exhibition of German Primitives,” Arts 14 (1928), pp. 311–12. Frank E. Washburn Freund, “Ausstellung altdeutscher Malerei in den F. Kleinberger Galleries zu New York,” Belvedere 8 (1929), p. 285. Hertha Wescher-Kauert, “Zu den malerischen Anfängen des Matthias Gerung,” Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst 63 (1929–30), pp. 150–53 (ill.). The Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection, 1932, p. 193, no. 1104.28. Charles L. Kuhn, A Catalogue of German Paintings of the Middle Ages and Renaissance in American Collections, Cambridge, Mass., 1936, p. 57, no. 215. Daniel Catton Rich, ed., Catalogue of the Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection of Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings, Chicago, 1938, pp. 43–44, no. 40, pl. 29. The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection, 1961, p. 177. Mikhail Iakovlevich Libman, Zhivopis i risunok Germanii i Avstrii XV–XIX vekov, exh. cat., Moscow, [Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts], 1963, p. 28, under no. 602. [Kurt Löcher], “Staatsgalerie Stuttgart: Neuerwerbungen 1967,” Jahrbuch der staatlichen Kunstsummlungen in Baden-Württemberg 5 (1968), p. 202. John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago, London, 1970, pp. 254 (ill.), 282. Dieter Koepplin and Tilman Falk, Lukas Cranach: Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Druckgraphik, vol. 2, exh. cat., Kunstmuseum Basel, 1976, p. 532, under no. 381. Inge El-Himoud-Sperlich, “Das Urteil des Paris: Studien zur Bildtradi-tion des Themas im 16. Jahrhundert,” Ph.D. diss., Ludwig Max-milians Universität, Munich, 1977, p. 165. Olga V. Postnikova, “Kartina Mattiasa Gerunga ‘Alle-goria liobvi’ iz sobrania GMII imeni A. S. Puszkina,” Soobshche-nia Gosudarstvennogo muzeia izobrazitelnykh iskusstv imeni A. S. Puszkina 9 (1992), p. 106. Anja-Franziska Eichler, Mathis Gerung (um 1500–1570): Die Gemälde, Frankfurt, 1993, pp. 138, 141–51, 182–83, no. 11, fig. 79. Fritz Grosse, “Thronbaldachine bei Ottheinrich von der Pfalz,” in Pfalzgraf Ottheinrich: Politik, Kunst und Wissenschaft im 16. Jahrhundert, Regensburg, 2002, pp. 210, 224–25, 285 (ill.). Martha Wolff in Martha Wolff et al., Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2008, pp. 404-7, ill.

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Monogrammist PG (Germany, active c. 1525–50)
    Date
    1536
    Medium
    Oil on panel
    Dimensions
    49.1 × 32.8 cm (19 5/16 × 12 7/8 in.); Framed: 72.4 × 47.4 × 9.6 cm (28 1/2 × 18 5/8 × 3 3/4 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    painting
    Style
    16th Century
    Place
    Germany
    Department
    Painting and Sculpture of Europe
    Credit line
    Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection
    Accession no.
    1940.935

    Provenance

    Dr. Reuling, Baltimore, 1902 [according to the catalogue of the Stillwell sale]. Dr. John E. Stillwell, New York, by 1927; sold, American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, New York, Dec. 1–3, 1927, no. 454, as Georg Pentz [sic], to Kleinberger for $4,750 [according to Charles Worcester’s annotation on the back of a photo in the curatorial file]. Kleinberger, New York and Paris, 1927–Oct. 1928; sold to Charles H. Worcester, Chicago, 1928 [invoice dated Oct. 13, 1928, Art Institute Archives; copy in curatorial file]; on loan to the AIC from 1928; given to the AIC, 1940.

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