Caesar Sends a Messenger to Cleopatra from The Story of Caesar and Cleopatra
Workshop of Willem van Leefdael · c. 1680
Provenance
Ownership history
- Villalonga family, Palma de Mallorca, Spain [housed in the family home known as Ca Dona Mira]; Francisco de Villalonga i Mir (1664–1737), Palma de Mallorca, Spain, by 1737 [Brosens 2008, 155; Thurman with Viladomiu 2023]; by descent within the family; sold by art dealer Apolonia Burguera through Olegario Junyent to Charles Deering (died 1927), Maricel, Sitges, Spain, 1915, then Chicago, from 1922 [on loan to the Art Institute of Chicago from 1922]; given to his daughters, Marion D. McCormick, Chicago (1886-1965; born Marion Deering; also Mrs. Chauncey McCormick) and Barbara D. Danielson, Chicago (1885-1957, born Barbara Deering, also Mrs. Richard Ely Danielson), 1924; given to the Art Institute, 1944.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, Regenstein Hall, The Divine Art: Four Centuries of European Tapestry, Nov. 1, 2008–Jan. 4, 2009.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arms and Armour, Gallery 236, Oct. 29, 2013-Nov. 25, 2014.
Literature
Published references
- 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) 138-165, cat. 19D (ill.).
- Christa C. Mayer Thurman, with the assistance of Pilar Viladomiu, The Saga of the Cleopatra Tapestries (December 22, 2023): https://www.artic.edu/articles/1102/the-saga-of-the-cleopatra-tapestries
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