Art Institute of Chicago
Mother and Children
Pál Szinyei Merse (Hungarian, 1854-1920)LinkedCulture matchlcp-f4ab4d28eafb
- Date
- 1869
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Culture
- Hungary
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 263513
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- Credit line
- Gift of The Salgo Trust for Education
- Provenance
- The artist; sold to Galerie Wimmer & Co., Munich, c. 1868 [purchased before completion of the work according to Kunstzeitung Dioskuren 1869, 189]. Private collection, United States, by 1911 [Lázar 1911]. Clarence S. Brown, New York, before 1990 [Szinyei Merse 1990, 186; this and the following according to Múzeum Digitár (hu.museum-digital.org), accessed Apr. 1, 2022; copy in curatorial object file]; with Francis Gruber (Pannonia Galleries), Washington, D.C., before 1990 [Szienyei Merse 1990, 186]; with Ira Spanierman Gallery, New York, before 1990 [Szinyei Merse 1990, 186]; with Jean-Pierre Guillaume, Atlanta, GA, 1992; sold through David Ramus Fine Art to Nicolas M. Salgo (died 2005), New York, 1992 [invoice from David Ramus Fine Art, Apr. 29, 1992; copy in curatorial object file]; bequeathed to The Salgo Trust for Education; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2022.
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- Object type
- AAT300033618
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