Elias by an unidentified artist
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Elias

Unattributed · 1460-1470

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Seidlitz and Van Baarn, New York; sold to Mr. (died 1943) and Mrs. Gustavus F. Swift Jr. (born Marie Fitzgerald, died 1966), Chicago, by 1919; given to the Art Institute, 1959.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Art Institute of Chicago, Tapestries from the Permanent Collection, June 30–Sept. 30, 1979.

Literature

Published references

  • Phyllis Ackerman, Elias and Moses: A Pair of Panels of about 1440 Probably Woven in Tournai after a Cartoon by Piat van Room in the Possession of Seidlitz and Van Baarn (Unpublished ms., 1919. Department of Textiles, the Art Institute of Chicago).
  • 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) 37-39, cat. 1A (ill.).

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