Altarpiece of the Virgin and Child

1. Pedro de Montoya, (died 1475), Soria, Spain [appointed Bishop of Burgo de Osma between 1454 and 1475; this and the following according to Davidson 1968]; given to the Cathedral of Burgo de Osma, Spain, probably between 1454 and 1475 [the alterpiece is listed in the inventory of the cathedral in 1600 in the chapel of St. Peter]. Lionel Harris (1862-1943), Spanish Art Gallery, London, 1916; sold to French and Company, New York [Museum Studies 2004: 95]; sold to Charles Deering (1852–1927), Sitges, Spain, and Miami, Nov. 11, 1961 [copy of Bill, French and Co.; copy in curatorial object file; note on incoming receipt; on loan to the Art Institute of Chicago from Nov. 22, 1923, incoming receipt, R1242, loan number 3244.23]; by descent to his daughters, Marion McCormick (1886-1965; born Marion Deering; also Mrs. Chauncey McCormick) and Barbara Danielson (1888-1982; born Barbara Deering; also Mrs. Richard Ely Danielson, 1888–1982); given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1927.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Art Institute of Chicago, The Masterpiece of the Month: Spanish Embroidered Altarpiece, Oct. 1–Oct. 30, 1940.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Decorative Arts, Robert Allerton Wing, 1940-at least 1946.
• Medieval Art, 1968.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpieces of Western Textiles, Jan. 25–Mar. 2, 1969.
• Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute Centennial Celebration, 1979.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery 142, Spiritual Expressions: Art for Private Contemplation and Public Celebration, Nov. 22, 1995-Mar. 17, 1996.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Devotion and Splendor: Medieval Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, Sept. 25, 2004-Jan. 2, 2005, exh cat.
• Riggisberg, Switzerland, Abegg-Stiftung, Embroidered Retable from Chicago, Sept. 22–Nov. 13, 2016.
• Art Institute of Chicago, The Deering Family Galleries, Gallery 237, Mar. 17, 2017–present.

• Nicholas Rabal, Espania: sus Monumentos Y Artes --su Naturaleza e Historia: Soria (Barcelona, 1889), 352-355 (detail, drawing ill.).
• Juan Cabré y Aguilô, "El retablo bordado, de Don Pedro de Montoya, Obispo de Osma," Archivo Espanol de Arte y Arguelogia 5 (1929): 1-20 (ill.).
• "Cathedral del Burgo de Osma." In Boletin de la Sociedad Española de Excursiones (Aug.-Oct. 1903): 22, 170-2, figs. 126-128.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 34, no. 1 (Jan. 1940): 5 (ill.).
• Ruth Groenwoldt, "Florentiner Stickereien in den Inventaren des Herzogs von Berry und der Herzoege von Burgund." Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz vol. 10, Heft 1 (May 1961).
• Mildred Davison, "An Altarpiece from Burgo de Osma," The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, no. 3 (1968): 108-124 (ill.).
• Christa Charlotte Mayer, Masterpieces of Western Textiles from The Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1969), 128, pl. 98 (ill.).
• Virginia Churchill Bath, Embroidery Masterworks: Classic Patterns and Techniques for Contemporary Application from the Textile Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1972), 19-27 (ill.)
• "Little Known Treasures of The Art Institute of Chicago," Chicago Magazine (May 1979).
• Leonie von Wilckens, Die textilen Künste: von der Spätantike bis um 1500 (Munich: C.H. Beck, 1991), 254-5.
• Christa C. Mayer Thurman, Textiles in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1992), 27, 28-9, 144 (ill.).
• The Art Institute of Chicago: The Essential Guide (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1993), 226-7 (ill.).