Venus and Mars with Cupid and the Three Graces in a Landscape

probably by descent to the Alba collection through Don Gaspar’s daughter, Doña Catalina, who in 1688 married the tenth Duke of Alba [the painting is not included in the inventories of the Alba Collection, which are incomplete

this location and the following does not necessarily precede its presence in the H. M. Clark collection]. Dowdeswell and Dowdeswell, London, as Jacopo Tintoretto [according to the Witt Library mount cited above]. H. M. Clark, London, as Jacopo Tintoretto [according to registrar’s records]. D. Heinemann, Munich

Don Gaspar Méndez de Haro y Guzmán, Marqués del Carpio y Helice and viceroy of Naples (died 1687), by 1682/3 [his monogram, DGH / 4,67 / 1406, was painted on the reverse of the old lining canvas

Alessandra Anselmi, “Il VII Marchese del Carpio da Roma a Napoli,” Paragone no. 683 (2007), pp. 84, 95 n. 15, 103–4, no. 11, fig. 79.

William E. Suida, The Samuel H. Kress Collection at the University of Arizona (Tucson, 1957), n. p., under no. 16.

Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, England’s World of 1607, 1957, no cat.

Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance (London, 1957), vol. 1, p. 171; vol. 2., pl. 1285.

Urbana, University of Illinois, Midwest Museum Loan Exhibition, 1955, no cat.

Frederick A. Sweet, “La pittura italiana all’Art Institute di Chicago,” Le vie del mondo: Rivista mensile del Touring Club Italiano 15 (1953), p. 689.

Chattanooga Art Association, Inc., Tennessee, Opening Exhibition of Hunter Gallery of Art, 1952, no cat.

Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, Opening Exhibition, April 8–June 3, 1951, no cat. no., as by Jacopo Tintoretto.

Art Institute of Chicago, An Illustrated Guide to the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1948), p. 26.

Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpieces of Painting, XV and XVI Centuries in the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1946), pp. 25–26, ill.

Erich von der Bercken, Die Gemälde des Jacopo Tintoretto (Munich, 1942), pp. 70, 107, no. 62, fig. 193.

Regina Shoolman and Charles E. Slatkin, The Enjoyment of Art in America (Philadelphia and New York, 1942), pl. 322.

Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpiece of the Month, May 1941, no cat., as by Jacopo Tintoretto.

Luigi Coletti, Il Tintoretto (Bergamo, 1940), p. 31.

New York, M. Knoedler and Co., Classics of the Nude, April 10–29, 1939, no. 9, as by Jacopo Tintoretto.

Erich von der Bercken, “Tintoretto, Jacopo,” in Thieme-Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart , vol. 33 (Leipzig, 1939), p. 193.

New York, Durlacher Brothers, A Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Jacopo Robusti, il Tintoretto, 1519–1594, February 20–March 18, 1939, no. 9, as by Jacopo Tintoretto.

Daniel Catton Rich, Catalogue of the Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection of Paintings, Sculpture, and Drawings (Chicago, 1938), p. 15, no. 11, pl. X.

Bernard Berenson, Pitture italiane del Rinascimento (Milan, 1936), p. 480.

Art Institute of Chicago, A Brief Illustrated Guide to the Collections (Chicago, 1935), p. 21, detail ill.

Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–November 1, 1934, no. 55, as by Jacopo Tintoretto.

Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–November 1, 1933, no. 137, as by Jacopo Tintoretto.

Daniel Catton Rich, “Die Ausstellung ‘Fünf Jahrhunderte der Frühmalerei’ in Chicago,” Pantheon 12 (1933), p. 381.

A. L. M[ayer], “Italienische Bilder in Amerika,” Pantheon 10 (1932), p. 218.

Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago, 1932), pp. 4, 173, ill.

Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance (Oxford, 1932), p. 558

Lionello Venturi, Pitture italiane in America (Milan, 1931), pl. CCCCIX.

Daniel Catton Rich, “Chicago Given Worcester Art,” Art News 28, 22 (1930), p. 9.

Daniel Catton Rich, “The Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Worcester Gift,” Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 24 (1930), p. 30.

given to the Art Institute, 1929.

Charles H. Worcester, Chicago, 1928–29

Daniel Catton Rich, “Mars and Venus of Tintoretto,” Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 22 (1928), pp. 102–03, cover ill., detail ill.

Mauro Lucco, La pittura nel Veneto: Il Cinquecento, vol. 3 (Milan, 1999), p. 1324.

Marcus B. Burke and Peter Cherry, Collections of Paintings in Madrid, 1601–1755, ed. Maria L. Gilbert (Los Angeles, 1997), pp. 786 n. 19, 828 n. 4, 829 n. 12.

the painting is no. 465 [sic] in the 1682/83 inventory of the Carpio collection, Rome, as “Un quadro che rappresenta Venere sopra un Letto, che vede Amore che ha gl’ occhi bendati, e da Lontano Le tre Gratie nude di mano di Domenicao Tintoretto”, and no. 1406 in the 1687 inventory of the same collection, taken in Naples, see Burke and Cherry 1997]

Art Institute of Chicago, New Light on Old Masters: Early Italian Painting in the Art Institute of Chicago, May 29–July 31, 1993, no cat.

Christopher Lloyd, Italian Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1993), pp. 234–39, ill.

Peter Bermingham, ed., University of Arizona Museum of Art: Paintings and Sculpture in the Permanent Collection (Tucson, 1983), p. 29.

Rodolfo Pallucchini and Paola Rossi, Tintoretto: Le opere sacre e profane (Milan, 1982), vol. 1, p. 242, no. A22, p. 252, under no. A98; vol. 2, p. 635, fig. 649.

Rodolfo Pallucchini, La pittura veneziana del seicento, vol. 1 (Milan, 1981), p. 25.

John D. Morse, Old Master Paintings in North America (New York, 1979), p. 262.

Emmanuel Bénézit, “Tintoretto (Jacopo ou Giacomo Robusti dit il),” in Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs, et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays, vol. 10, 3rd ed. (Paris, 1976), p. 192.

Fern Rusk Shapley, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XVI–XVIII Century (London, 1973), p. 62, under no. K2135.

Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972), pp. 199, 473, 570.

Carlo Bernari and Pierluigi De Vecchi, L’opera completa del Tintoretto, Classici dell’arte 36 (Milan, 1970), p. 134, 136, no. E13, ill.

Frederick A. Sweet, “Great Chicago Collectors,” Apollo 84 (1966), p. 203.