Four Servants, part of Telemachus Leading Theoclymenus to Penelope from The Story of Odysseus by Jan van Leefdael
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Four Servants, part of Telemachus Leading Theoclymenus to Penelope from The Story of Odysseus

Jan van Leefdael · c. 1650

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. An unidentified Italian family, Rome, to 1890; sold to the Art Institute, with Rodolfo Amadeo Lanciani acting as agent, 1890.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Art Institute of Chicago, The Antiquarian Society of The Art Institute of Chicago: The First One Hundred Years, Apr. 23–June 19, 1977.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Regenstein Hall, The Divine Art: Four Centuries of European Tapestry, Nov. 1, 2008–Jan. 4, 2009.

Literature

Published references

  • George Leland Hunter, "Tapestries in the Chicago Art Institute," The House Beautiful 35, no. 4 (Mar. 1914): 121, fig. 8 (ill.).
  • The Antiquarian Society of the Art Institute of Chicago: The First One Hundred Years, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1977). 245, 187 (ill.).
  • Kristi Nelson, Jacob Jordaens: Design for Tapestry, Pictura Nova 5 (Brepols, 1998), 81–82, 83, 262, pl. 34..
  • Christa C. Mayer Thurman and Koenraad Brosens, "Flemish Tapestries in the Collection of The Art Institute of Chicago." In Flemish Tapestry in European and American Collections: Studies in Honour of Guy Delmarcel, ed. Koenraad Brosens, 171-184, cat. 18 (ill.).
  • 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) 133-137, cat. 18 (ill.).

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