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The Abduction of the Sabine Women
Provenance
Purchased in the early twentieth century by Georges de Branconier, Brussels [letter from Yvan Cruysmans, dated July 24, 1991, in curatorial file]; Madame Georges de Braconier (née Comtesse d’Hemricourt), Brussels, until 1950s [see letter cited above]; Jean Cruysmans (died 1970), Brussels [see letter cited above]; Cruysmans family, Brussels [see letter cited above]; offered for sale, Sotheby’s, London, March 19, 1975, lot 76; bought in; reoffered Sotheby’s, London, May 12, 1976, lot 102; Alfredo and Raquel Helegua, Washington; sold to the Art Institute, 1991.
Publications
Larry J. Feinberg, “Luca Giordano’s Abduction of the Sabine Women,” Notable Acquisitions at the Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 21, 1 (1995), pp. 38–47. Paul Jeromack, “Panorama del collezionismo pubblico nell’America del Nord, 1990–1995” in Alessandro Morandotti, Pittura Italiana antica settecento (Milan, 1995), p. 58. Oreste Ferrari and Giuseppe Scavizi, Luca Giordano. Nuove ricerche e inediti (Naples, 2003), p. 58, no. A0115.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Luca Giordano (Italian, 1632–1705)
- Date
- c. 1675
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 260 × 295 cm (102 × 116 in.); Framed: 296 × 327.1 × 11.4 cm (116 1/2 × 128 3/4 × 4 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- oil on canvas
- Style
- 17th Century
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Major Acquisitions Centennial Endowment; Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection
- Accession no.
- 1991.295
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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-00001516
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