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Allegory of Venus and Cupid
Imitator of Titian (Italian, c. 1488–1576)LinkedCulture matchlcp-a2bc86d86fc8
- Date
- c. 1600
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Culture
- Italy
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 46314
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- Credit line
- Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection
- Provenance
- Francis, eighth Earl of Wemyss (died 1853), Gosford House, Longniddry, East Lothian, Scotland, by 1835 [lent by him to London, 1835; see A. Graves, A Century of Loan Exhibition, 1813–1912, New York [1968], vol. 3, pp. 1318–19]; by descent to Hugo Richard, eleventh Earl of Wemyss; sold by him to Wildenstein, Paris, 1927 [according to Ay-Whang Hsia, Wildenstein, New York, in conversation with Lisa Dunn, October 11, 1991]; Baron Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, by 1930 [Valentiner 1930; the identity of the owner is given in a letter of February 3, 1937 from Felix Wildenstein to Daniel Catton Rich in curatorial file]; Wildenstein, Paris and New York, by 1935 [Ay-Whang Hsia interpreted the Wildenstein stock books as indicating that the purchaser of the painting – i.e. Thyssen, though no name is given–returned the paintings to Wildenstein in the mid 1930s; see Lisa Dunn’s note of telephone conversation cited above]; sold by Wildenstein to Charles H. Worcester, Chicago, 1936 [according to correspondence from Felix Wildenstein to Robert B. Harshe of June 8, 1936, and from Charles H. Worcester to Felix Wildenstein of November 21, 1936, in curatorial file]; on loan to the Art Institute from 1936; given to the Art Institute, 1943.
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- Object type
- AAT300033618
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