Kitchen Scene by Diego Velázquez
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Kitchen Scene

Diego Velázquez · 1618–20

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Private collection, Zurich [according to Mayer 1936]. Dr. L. von Buerkel, Munich [according to Mayer 1936]. Bottenwieser, Berlin [according to Mayer 1936]. J. Goudstikker, Amsterdam, by 1927, until 1935 [see Mayer 1927; Mayer 1936 mentions Mrs. Sterner, New York as owner between Goudstikker and the Art Institute, however, the painting was shipped directly from Goudstikker in Amsterdam to Chicago in November, 1935]; sold by Goudstikker to The Art Institute, 1935.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Tentoonstelling van Oude Kunst door de Vereeniging van Handelaren in Oude Kunst in Nederland, 1929, no. 151.
  • Columbus, Ohio, Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Spanish Paintings, Textiles, Furniture, Arms and Pottery, 1936, no cat.
  • Hartford, Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum, The Painters of Still Life, 25 January–15 February 1938, cat. 42.
  • Toledo, Ohio, Toledo Museum of Art, Spanish Painting, 16 March - 27 April, 1941, no. 59.
  • Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Caravaggio and the Tenebrosi, 8 April – 30 May 1954, no. 23.
  • Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Pictures of Everyday Life: Genre Painting in Europe 1500-1900, 14 October – 12 December 1954, no. 27.
  • Denver, Colorado, The Denver Art Museum, Baroque Art, 3 October – 15 November 1971, p. 106, ill.
  • Edinburgh, National Gallery of Scotland, Velázquez in Seville, August 8–October 20, 1996, cat. 23.
  • Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, El Bodegón Español [De Zurbarán a Picasso], 13 December 1999 - 19 April 2000, no. 17.
  • Seville, Hospital de los Venerables, De Herrera a Velazquez: El primer naturalismo en Sevilla, 29 November 2005 - 28 February 2006; traveled to Bilbao, Museo de Belles Artes de Bilbao, 20 March - 28 May 2006, no. 36.
  • London, The National Gallery, Velázquez, 18 October 2006 - 21 January 2007, no. 6.
  • Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, El Greco to Velázquez, Art during the Reign of Philip III, April 20- July 27, 2008, cat. 60; Durham, North Carolina, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, August 21- November 9, 2008.

Literature

Published references

  • August L. Mayer, “Das Original der ‘Küchenmagd’ von Velázquez,” Der Cicerone 19 (1927), pp. 562-63, ill.
  • [J. Goudstikker], Catalogue des nouvelles acquisitions de la collection Goudstikker exposées à Amsterdam, Heerengracht 458, no. 33 (Amsterdam, 1927), p. 127, no. 129.
  • Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Bulletin 7, 1 (October 1936), pp. 2-3.
  • August L. Mayer, Velázquez: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Pictures and Drawings (London, 1936), p. 24, no. 105, pl. 39.
  • “Fifteen New Acquisitions at Chicago,” The Art News 35, 13 (December 26, 1936), p. 9, ill.
  • Daniel Catton Rich, “An El Greco and a Velázquez,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 31 (1937), pp. 2–5, ill.
  • Enrique Lafuente, Velazquez (London and New York, 1943), pp. 10, 11, , 17, under no. III, pl. 3.
  • Martin S. Soria, “An Unknown Early Painting by Velázquez,” Burlington Magazine 91 (1949), pp. 124, 127, 128, fig. 4.
  • Dorothy Grafly, “On the Subject of Man. A Report on the Carnegie Institute’s ‘Genre’ Show and the Arensberg Collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art,” American Artist 18, 9 (December 1954), p. 38 (ill.).
  • Bernardino de Pantorba, La vida y la obra del Velázquez (Madrid, 1955), p. 65, no. 5 (ill.).
  • Charles Sterling, La Nature Morte de l’antiquité à nos jours (Paris, 1952), no. 62, pp. 67, 132.
  • Carl Justi, Velázquez y su siglo (Madrid, 1953), rev. ed. with appendix by Juan Antonio Gaya Nuño, pp. 818, 830, fig. 228.

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