
Cleopatra and Antony Enjoying Supper from The Story of Caesar and Cleopatra
Workshop of Gerard Peemans · c. 1680
Provenance
Ownership history
- Possibly the Villalonga family, Mallorca, to 1914 at the latest; sold to Charles Deering (died 1927), Marycel, Sitges, Spain, and Miami, FL, by 1914 [Koenraad Brosens, ed, 2008, 136-365, cat. 19M; on loan to the Art Institute of Chicago from Feb. 7, 1922, loan number 323.122]; given to his daughters, Mrs. Chauncey McCormick (died 1965; born Marion Deering, also Marion McCormick) and Mrs. Ely Danielson (died 1982; born Barbara Deering, also Barbara Danielson), Mar. 4, 1924 [letter from Charles Deering to Charles Hutchinson, Mar. 4, 1924; AIC Institutional Archives]; 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, Applied Arts of Europe rotation, The Deering Family Galleries of Medieval and Renaissance Art, Arms, and Armor, Gallery 239A, Jul. 17, 2024-Jul. 22, 2025.
Literature
Published references
- Jose Martino Arroyo, Marycel (Barcelona: Revista de arquitectura, 1918), n.p. (photographed in the Salón (pequeño) de tapices (ill.).
- 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. 19M (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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