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Classical Landscape with Two Women and a Man on a Path
Francisque Millet · c. 1660–c. 1670
Provenance
Ownership history
- John Warne Gates (died 1911), St. Charles, Illinois; his widow, Dellora Baker Gates (died 1918) [according to a letter from A. B. Hussander to the Art Institute dated February 8, 1924, copy in curatorial file]; by descent to her niece, Dellora A. Norris (née Angell, married to Lester J. Norris in 1923) [according to the letter cited above]; on loan to the Art Institute in the name of her father, Robert Francis Angell, from 1923; given to the Art Institute, 1970.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Literature
Published references
- W. A. P. “The Angell Collection,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 17, 6 (1923), p. 52.
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago, 1925), p. 170, no. 2308.
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago, 1932), p. 190.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report 1970–1971 (Chicago, 1971), p. 26.
- Pierre Rosenberg, La Peinture française du XVIIe siècle dans les collections américaines, exh. cat. (Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, 1982), p. 365, appendix no. 8, ill.
- Christopher Wright, The French Painters of the Seventeenth Century (London, 1985), p. 231.
- Christopher Wright, The World’s Master Paintings From the Early Renaissance to the Present Day (London and New York, 1992), vol. 1, p. 245; vol. 2 pp. 62, 497.
- Susan Wise in Susan Wise and Malcolm Warner, French and British Paintings from 1600 to 1800 in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1996), pp. 104–6, ill.
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