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Eve
Lucas Cranach the Elder · 1533–37
Provenance
Ownership history
- Private collection, Stockholm [according to Rich 1936, p. 46]. J. Goudstikker, Amsterdam, by 1935 [record of payment to Goudstikker, September 10, 1935, Art Institute Archives]; sold to Charles H. Worcester, Chicago, September 1935; given to the Art Institute, 1935.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Literature
Published references
- “Report for the Year 1935,” Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 30 (1936), p. 17 (ill.).
- Daniel Catton Rich, “An Unpublished ‘Adam and Eve’ by Cranach,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 30 (1936), pp. 45–50 (ill.).
- “Art throughout America, Chicago: Exhibitions and Two Cranachs,” Art News 34, 30 (1936), p. 11 (ill.).
- “Cranach’s ‘Adam and Eve’ Given to Chicago,” Art Digest 10, 15 (1936), p. 18 (1935.295 ill.).
- Daniel Catton Rich, ed., Catalogue of the Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection of Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings, Chicago, 1938, p. 38, no. 33, pl. 25.
- “Chicago Art Institute,” Life, September 8, 1941, p. 211 (1935.295 ill.).
- The Art Institute of Chicago, A Brief Illustrated Guide to the Collections (1941), p. 28.
- Regina Shoolman and Charles E. Slatkin, The Enjoyment of Art in America, Philadelphia and New York, 1942, pls. 462–64.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, An Illustrated Guide to the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago (1945), p. 30.
- “The German Masters,” Masterpieces 1 (1950), pp. 74–75 (ill.).
- Charles Fabens Kelley, “Chicago: Record Years,” Art News 51, 4 (1952), pp. 56–57 (ill.).
- Art Institute of Chicago, An Illustrated Guide to the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1956, p. 27.
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