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Emperor Heraclius Slays the King of Persia
Netherlandish · c. 1470
Provenance
Ownership history
- T. Schiff; sold, his estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Mar. 21–22, 1905, nos. 15 and 18, as sixteenth-century Augsburg School, to Kleinberger along with two other panels from the same narrative cycle now in the Kunstmuseum Basel [annotated sale catalogue in the library of the Cleveland Museum of Art]. George F. Harding, Jr. (d. 1939), Chicago, by 1929 [the paintings were lent to the Art Institute by Harding in 1929; Registrar’s records]; bequeathed to the George F. Harding Museum, Chicago; ownership transferred to the AIC, 1982; accessioned, 1990.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Literature
Published references
- Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report, 1990–91, p. 19.
- Martha Wolff in Martha Wolff et al., Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2008, pp. 271-76, ill.
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