
Bust of Giovanni Battista de Luca
Bernardo Fioriti · 1650–74
Provenance
Ownership history
- Palazzo Cardinalizio di Ponziano, Rome [this and the following according to original dealer solicitation in curatorial file; see also London 1966 exh. cat. and Chicago 1978 exh. cat.]. Private collection, Rome. Heim Gallery, London, by 1966 [London 1966 exh. cat.]; sold to the Art Institute, 1967.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- London, Heim Gallery, Italian Paintings & Sculptures of the 17th and 18th Centuries, June 7– Aug. 31, 1966, cat. 58 as Roman, Bust of an Ecclesiastic.
- Art Institute of Chicago, European Portraits, 1600–1900, July 8 – Sep. 11, 1978, cat. 37.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Van Dyck, Rembrandt, and the Portrait Print, Mar. 5 - Aug. 7, 2016, cat. 104.
Literature
Published references
- Italian paintings & sculptures of the 17th and 18th centuries, exh. cat (London: Heim Gallery, 1966), 19 cat. 58 as Roman, Bust of an Ecclesiastic.
- Susan Wise, ed., European Poirtraits in the Art Institute of Chicago, 1600-1900, exh. cat. (Chicago, Art Institute, 1978), 134-35 cat. 37.
- Andrea Bachi, Scultura del ‘600 a Roma (Milan: Longanesi, 1996), 807.
- Van Dyck, Rembrandt, and the Portrait Print, Victoria Sancho Lobis with essay by Maureen Warren, publisher The Art Institute of Chicago, distributed by Yale University Press, New Haven and London (2016)
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