Venus and Cupid

London, British Institution, Pictures by Italian, Spanish, Flemish, Dutch and English Masters…, 1836, no. 97.

sold by Patoun to Sir Abraham Hume, Bt. (d. 1838), Wormley Bury, Hertfordshire, by 1782 [see Hume 1824]

Sir Abraham Hume, A Descriptive Catalogue of a Collection of Pictures, Comprehending Specimens of all the Various Schools of Painting: Belonging to Sir Abraham Hume (London, 1824), p. 28, no. 88.

by descent to his grandson John Hume Egerton, Viscount Alford (d. 1851), Ashridge Park, Berkhamsted, 1838–51 [according to List of Paintings and Pictures settled by Sir Abraham Hume, Bart. as Heirlooms contained in a Deed of Settlement dated the 27th February, 1834, no. 36, typescript copy, London, National Gallery Library.]

London, British Institution, Pictures by Italian, Spanish, Flemish, Dutch and English Masters…, 1831, no. 2, as “Cupid stung by a Bee in his finger, complains to Venus.”

William Patoun (d. 1782), Richmond, Surrey

University of Chicago, Smart Museum of Art, Lust, Love, and Loss in Renaissance Europe, April 8-June 13, 2021, no cat.

Austin, Blanton Museum of Art, Luca Cambiaso: 1527–1585, September 15 – December 31, 2006, cat. 63; Genoa, Palazzo Ducale, February 16 – June 17, 2007 [Austin only].

Sibylle Weber am Bach, Hans Baldung Grien (1484/85–1545): Marienbilder in der Reformation (Regensburg, 2006), p. 130 n. 629.

Jonathan Bober and Giulio Bora, Capolavori della Suida-Manning Collection, exh. cat. (Milan, 2001), pp. 32–33, 37 n. 10, fig. 1.

Lili Fröhlich-Bum, “Luca Cambiaso,” Apollo 70 (1959), p. 94, fig. I.

Bertina Suida Manning and William Suida, Luca Cambiaso: la vita e le opere (Milan, 1958), pp. 25, 159–60, fig. 338.

Attilio Podestà, “Luca Cambiaso e la sua fortuna,” Emporium 124 (1956), pp. 245, ill., 248.

Genoa, Palazzo dell’Accademia, Luca Cambiaso e la sua fortuna, 1956, no. 37.

Indianapolis, John Herron Art Museum, Pontormo to Greco: The Age of Mannerism, 1954, no. 49.

Frederick A. Sweet, “La pittura italiana all’ Art Institute di Chicago,” Le vie del mondo: Rivista mensile del Touring Club Italiano 15 (1953), pp. 698–700, ill.

Bertina Suida Manning, “Una Obra Maestra de Luca Cambiaso en la Coleccion del Duque de Alba en Madrid,” Archivo Español de Arte 25 (1952), p. 161.

Frederick A. Sweet, “Venus and Cupid by Luca Cambiaso,” Art Institute Bulletin 37 (1943), pp. 2–3, cover ill.

Adolfo Venturi, Storia dell’arte italiana, vol. 9, pt. 7 (Milan, 1934), p. 854 n.

Piero Torriano, “Luca Cambiaso nel quarto centenario dalla nascita,” L’illustrazione italiana 54 (1927), pp. 522–23, ill.

by descent to Adelbert Salusbury Cockayne Cust, fifth Baron Brownlow, 1867–1927

Genoa, Teatro Carlo Felice, Mostra centenaria di Luca Cambiaso organizzata dalla Compagna, 1927, no. 8.

sold Christie’s London, May 4, 1923, no. 109, to Collings for 12 gns [according to an annotated copy of the sale catalogue at Christie’s, London]. Private Collection, Italy [according to Sweet 1943]. William E. Suida, Baden, near Vienna, and New York, by 1927 to 1941 [see Genoa 1956 exhibition, and Suida Manning and Suida 1958]. Sold by A.F. Mondschein, New York, to the Art Institute, 1942.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Bill Viola: A 25-Year Survey, October 16, 1999 – January 9, 2000, included in the gallery that held Viola’s The Greeting for the Chicago venue.

Daniel Arasse and Andreas Tönnesmann, La Renaissance maniériste (Paris, 1997), p. 324, ill.

Lauro Magnani, Luca Cambiaso: da Genova all’Escorial (Genoa, 1995), pp. 196, 208 n. 27, fig. 216.

Christopher Lloyd, Italian Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1993), pp. 58–62, ill.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Robert Lehmann Collection, vol. 5 (New York, 1987), pp. 156, under no. 57, 159 n. 6.

Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972), pp. 40, 476, 571.

Sydney J. Freedberg, Painting in Italy 1500 to 1600 (Harmondsworth, 1971), p. 416, pl. 269.

Fiorella Caraceni Poleggi, La pittura a Genova e in Liguria dagli inizi al cinquecento (Genoa, 1970), p. 239.

John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (New York, 1970), pp. 255, ill., 278.