
Art Institute of ChicagoPublic domain
Capital with the Adoration of the Magi
Spanish · c. 1120
Provenance
Ownership history
- Gabriel Dereppe, New York and Paris, 1944 [Brummer index card N5935 in the Cloisters Library and Archives, New York]; sold to Joseph Brummer, New York, 29 March 1944 [see source cited above]; sold for $4,000 to the Art Institute, 1944 [according to incoming receipt in Registrar's file].
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Devotion and Splendor: Medieval Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, September 25, 2004-January 3, 2005, cat. 16.
Literature
Published references
- Meyric R. Rogers and Oswald Goetz, Handbook to the Lucy Maud Buckingham Medieval Collection (Chicago, 1945), p. 61, no. 2.
- An American Correspondent, "Medieval Sculpture in the Buckingham Collection," Connoisseur 120, 505 (1947), pp. 51–53, fig. 6.
- Walter Cahn, Romanesque Sculpture in American Collections: New York and New Jersey, Middle and South Atlantic States, the Midwest, Western and Pacific States 2, Publications of the International Center of Medieval Art 3 (Turnhout, Belgium, 2001), p. 199, no. 6.
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