Virgin and Child Adored by Saint Francis

Probably Prince Victor Amadeus I of Savoy-Carignano (died 1741)

sold de Poilly, Paris, July 30, 1742, pp. 10–11 ["Deux petits Tableaux, l’un sur cuivre, l’autre sur bois, de onze pouces de haut, sur neuf pouces de large, represantans l’un une Vierge avec son Enfant & un Saint François, & l’autre une Assomption de la Vierge, de l’Albane" (two small paintings, one on copper, the other on wood, 12 3/8 x 10 1/8 in. (1 pouce = 1 1/8 inches) representing the one a Virgin and Child with Saint Francis and the other an Assumption of the Virgin), sold together for 2,050 fr. according to Charles Blanc and Henri Delaborde. Histoire des peintres de toutes les écoles. École Bolognese, Paris, 1877, p. 8]. Julius H. Weitzner, New York

Catherine R. Puglisi, Francesco Albani (New Haven and London, 1999), p. 109, cat. no. 29, pl. 50.

Daniele Benati, "Albani, Francesco" in Allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon (1983), p. 766.

Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Mass.,1972), pp. 3, 341, 398, 571.

John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (London,1970), p. 277, ill. p. 259.

Calendar of The Art Institute of Chicago 59 (March,1965), n. p. (ill.)

"Accessions of American and Canadian Museums October - December 1963," The Art Quarterly 27 (1964), p. 109, fig. 1.