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Abundantia from The Four Continents and Related Allegories

Lodewijk van Schoor · c. 1680/1700

Provenance

Ownership history

Lewis and Simmons, London and New York, by 1914; sold to Mr. Edward Townsend Stotesbury (1849-1938) and his wife Eva Stotesbury (1865-1946; born Lucretia Bishop Roberts), Philadelphia, 1915 or 1916; sold to French and Company, New York, 1925; sold to Horace Hano (died 1927), Philadelphia, 1926. Sold to Benjamin Edward "Ted" Bensinger IL (1929-2013), Beverly HIlls, CA, from about 1959 [incoming receipt RX3660, Sept. 26, 1961; copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute, 1962.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Buffalo, NY, Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery, Exhibition of Tapestries, 1914, cat.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Loan Exhibition of Tapestries, 1915, cat.
Art Institute of Chicago, Regenstein Hall, The Divine Art: Four Centuries of European Tapestry, Nov. 1, 2008–Jan. 4, 2009.

Literature

George Leland Hunter, Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Eighteenth-Century and Modern American Tapestries, exh. cat. (Buffalo, NY: Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 1914), 31-32, cat. 44.
George Leland Hunter, Loan Exhibition of Tapestries, exh. cat. (Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Museum of Art, 1915), 34-36, cat. 42.
James T. Maher, The Twilight of Splendor: Chronicles of the Age of American Palaces (Little, Brown, and Company, 1975), 64.
Koenraad Brosens, ed., Christa C. Mayer Thurman, gen. ed., European Tapestries in the Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat., [exhibition: "The Divine Art: Four Centuries of European Tapestries in the Art Institute of Chicago"] (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2008) 187-190, cat. 24 (ill.).

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