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July
Circle of Bernard van Orley · before 1528
Provenance
Ownership history
- Possibly Marie Particelli (died 1670), Hôtel La Vrillière, Paris, by 1672; possibly by descent to her husband, Louis Phélypeaux de La Vrillière (died 1681), to at least 1684. Polycarpe Charles Séchan (with August and October [now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York] and September [now in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts]), to 1875; sold Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Feb. 22-27 and Mar. 1-4, 1875, lot 906 (with August, October, and September), to Dreyfus de Gonzales; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, June 1-4, 1896, lot 252. Jacques Seligmann, by 1905; sold, Galerie George Petit, Paris, Mar. 16-17, 1914, lot 223, to Lehmann Bernheimer, Munich; sold to James Deering (died 1925), Vizcaya, Miami, June 18, 1914; by descent to his nieces, Mrs. Chauncey McCormick (born Marion Deering, died 1965) and Mrs. Ely Danielson (born Barbara Deering, died 1982); given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1950
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Brussels, Exposition d'Art Ancien Bruxellois, 1905.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Regenstein Hall, The Divine Art: Four Centuries of European Tapestry, Nov. 1, 2008–Jan. 4, 2009.
Literature
Published references
- Joseph Destree, Tapisseries et sculptures bruxelloises a l'Exposition d'art ancien bruxellois organisee a Bruxelles au Cercle artistique et litteraire de juillet a octobre 1905, exh. cat, (G. van Oest, 1906) vol. 1, 40-41, n. 19; vol. 2, table 7.
- J. Breck, "The Juilliard Tapestries," Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 15, no. 1 (Jan. 1920): 3.
- Heinrich Gobel, Die Niederlande, vol. 1 of Wandteppiche (Klinkhardt und Biermann, 1923), 166-67, vol. 2 table 146.
- Phillis Ackerman, Tapestry, a Mirror of Civilization (Oxford University Press, 1933), 380, n. 15.
- Robert B. Harshe and Daniel Catton Rich, Handbook of the House, Formal Gardens and Foundation of Vizcaya: An Italian Palazzo in a Tropical Setting, Home of the Late James Deering, Deering Plaza, Miami, Florida (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1934), 7.
- Edith A. Standen, "Drawings for the 'Months of Lucas' Tapestry Series," Master Drawings 9 (Spring 1971): 13, n. 15.
- John David Farmer, "A Painting of the Pentecost by Bernard van Orley," Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 67, no. 5 (Sept.-Oct. 1973): 19 (ill.).
- Edith A. Standen, "Studies in the History of Tapestry 1520-1790," Apollo 114, no. 322 (July 1981): 25.
- Edith A. Standen, European Post-Medieval Tapestries and Related Hangings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. 1 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985), 45.
- Piero Boccardo, Andrea Doria e le arti: committenza e mecenat ismo a Genova (Palombi, 1989), 79, 86, n. 21.
- Candace J. Adelson, European Tapestry in the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Minneapolis: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1994), 87, 90, nn. 28, 30, fig. 37.
- Thurman, Christa C. Mayer 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. Brepols Publishers, 2003.
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