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Lady at Her Toilette
Provenance
Dr. Max Emden (died 1941) [according to Registrar's receipt in curatorial file and letter from Walter Feilchenfeldt, dated August 7, 2002, in curatorial file]; sold by his estate to Walter Feilchenfeldt Sr., Switzerland, 1941; sold to the Art Institute, 1947.
Exhibition history
Seattle Art Museum, Renaissance and Baroque Art, Feb.–Mar. 1950, cat. 68. New York, American Federation of Arts, Picture of the Month Tour, Oct. 1, 1956–Jan. 31, 1957. Art Institute of Chicago, Painting in Italy in the Eighteenth Century, Sep. 19–Nov. 8, 1970, cat. 27; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Dec. 3, 1970 –Jan. 10, 1971; Toledo Museum of Art, Feb. 7–Mar. 21, 1971.
Publications
Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute, 1961), 262. Terisio Pignatti, Pietro Longhi (Venice: Alfieri, 1968), 187, no. 137. Rodolfo Pallucchini, “La pittura veneta del settecento alla mostra itinerante di Chicago-Minneapolis-Toledo,” Art veneta 24 (1970): 291. John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1970), 262 (ill.), 283. Hans Huth, “Italienische Kunstwerke im Art Institute von Chicago, USA,” in Römische Forschungen der Bibliothecae Hertziana (Vienna, 1961), 518. Teriso Pignatti, L’opera completa di Pietro Longhi (Milan, Rizzoli, 1974), 96, no. 134.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Pietro Longhi (Italian, 1702–1785)
- Date
- Late 1740s
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 73.7 × 64.1 × 12.7 cm (29 × 25 1/4 × 5 in.); Framed: 74 × 64.8 × 9.6 cm (29 1/8 × 25 1/2 × 3 3/4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- oil on canvas
- Style
- 18th Century
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Flora Erskine Miles Fund
- Accession no.
- 1947.433
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