Education of Cupid by Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña
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Education of Cupid

Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña · c. 1859

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Brame; his sale, March 27, 1882, lot 10 for 7,800 francs [price according to Miquel and Miquel 2006]. Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, no. 1528 [Durand-Ruel stock number according to Registrars Office documents and Miquel 2006]. Presumably 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 their niece Dellora A. Norris (née Angell, married to Lester J. Norris) [according to the 1924 letter cited above]; on loan to the Art Institute in the name of her father, Robert Francis Angell, from 1923 [according to the loan receipt dated 1923]; given to the Art Institute, 1970.

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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, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection, Supplement (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1971), p. 30.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report 1970–1971 (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1971), p. 26.
  • Pierre and Rolande Miquel, Narcisse Diaz de la Peña (1807–1876), vol. 2 (Courbevoie: ACR Édition Internationale, 2006), p. 434, cat. 2654 (ill.).

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