
Head of Medusa
Godfried Maes · 1680
Provenance
Ownership history
- Sold, Sotheby’s, London, July 11, 2001, lot 39. Didier Aaron, Inc., New York. Horace Wood Brock, New York, by 2009. Sold by Stephen Ongpin, London, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Splendor and Elegance: European Decorative Arts and Drawings from the Horace Wood Brock Collection, Jan. 22–May 17, 2009, pp. 96–7 (color ill.), 155, cat. 93.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age", September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 273, 274 (ill.), 275-76, 305 cat. 111, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.
Literature
Published references
- Burlington Magazine, advertisement for The Salon du Dessin, citing Galerie Didier Aaron, Paris as exhibitor (Mar. 2002), p. xxiv (ill.).
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