Figure of a Woman by George Romney
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Figure of a Woman

George Romney · c. 1776

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Dan Fellows Platt (died 1938), Englewood, NY, probably by 1932 [according to Chicago 1946; Chicago 1932]. Durlacher Brothers, New York, by 1942 [New York 1942]; sold to the Art Institute, 1944.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • New York, Durlacher Brothers, “6th Annual Drawing Show,” 1942.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawings: Old and New,” 1946, p. 23, cat. 46, pl. VIII, cat. by Carl Schniewind.
  • Minneapolis, Minn., The University of Minnesota Gallery, “The Eighteenth Century: One Hundred Drawings by One Hundred Artists,” 1961.
  • New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 124, as "Lady Hamilton as Ariadne."
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "A Quarter Century of Collecting: Drawings Given to The Art Institute of Chicago, 1944-1970 by Margaret Day Blake," April 28-June 7, 1970, n.p., cat. 24 (ill.).
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "Shockingly Mad: Henry Fuseli and the Art of Drawing", November 16, 2017 - April 1, 2018.

Literature

Published references

  • B. Holme, "Master Drawings" (New York, 1943), p. 15 (ill.).
  • The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report (1944), p. 7 (ill.).
  • J. Watrous, The Craft of Old Master Drawings (Madison, 1957), p. 76 (ill.).
  • Alfred Frankfurter, “’Il bon disegno’ from Chicago,” Art News, 62 (November, 1963), p. 30 (ill.).

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