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Hercules Seated, study for Hercules and Omphale
François Le Moyne · 1724
Provenance
Ownership history
- Max Hevesi, Vienna. Sold, Christie’s, New York, Jan. 30, 1998, lot 237, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA., given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, "Gifts of a Lifetime," 1998–1999, checklist 26.
- New York, Frick Collection, "Watteau and His World, French Drawing from 1700 to 1750," 1999, pp. 218–21, cat. 65.
- Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 53, cat. 26 (ill.).
- Art Institute of Chicago, "The Thrill of the Chase: Drawings for the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," Mar. 15-June 15, 2014, no cat.
Literature
Published references
- Suzanne Folds McCullagh, “Drawings in the Art Institute of Chicago,”Master Drawings 38:3 (Fall 2000), p. 247.
- Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), p. 53, cat. 26 (ill.).
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