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Kitchen Still Life

Paolo Antonio Barbieri · c. 1640

Analyst brief

What the record supports

"Kitchen Still Life," an oil on canvas, is attributed to Italian artist Paolo Antonio Barbieri and dated circa 1640. The artwork measures 66.3 × 79.2 cm (26 1/8 × 31 3/16 in.) and is classified within the Painting and Sculpture of Europe department. Its framed dimensions are 83.9 × 95.9 × 7 cm (33 × 37 3/4 × 2 3/4 in.).

The painting's known provenance indicates it was with Julius H. Weitzner, New York, by 1934, before being sold to the Art Institute in October 1934, where it is now part of the A. A. Munger Collection. The record does not include details on earlier ownership or auction prices.

"Kitchen Still Life" has been featured in two exhibitions: "The Painters of Still Life" at the Wadsworth Atheneum in 1938, and "Masterpieces of Spanish Painting" at The Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts in 1954. The artwork has also been discussed in multiple publications between 1935 and 1979.

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Provenance

Ownership history

Julius H. Weitzner, New York, by 1934; sold to the Art Institute, October 1934.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

Hartford, Conn., Wadsworth Atheneum, The Painters of Still Life, Jan. 25 - Feb. 15, 1938, cat. 43 (ill.).
The Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Masterpieces of Spanish Painting, Oct. 8 - Nov. 14, 1954, cat. 32.

Literature

Published references

"Report for the Year Nineteen Hundred Thirty-Four," Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 29 (1935), pt. 3, pp. 33-34, ill. p. 22.
[Francisco J.] S[ánchez] C[antón], "Dos Bodegones españoles," Archivo español de arte 15 (1942), p. 232, ill. opp. p. 231.
Francisco J. Sánchez-Cantón, La Sensibilidad de Zurbarán (Granada, 1944), pp. 13-14, ill.
Helmut P. G. Seckel, "Francisco de Zurbaran as a Painter of Still Life," Gazette des Beaux-Arts 30 (1946), p. 290.
Helmut P. G. Seckel, "Francisco de Zurbaran as a Painter of Still Life: Appendix," Gazette des Beaux Arts 31 (1947), p. 62, no. xi.
Katherine Kuh, Art Has Many Faces: The Nature of Art Presented Visually (New York, 1951), pp. 32-33, pl. 52.
Charles Fabens Kelly, "Chicago: Record Years," Art News 51 (June-August 1952), p. 53 (ill.).
César Pemán, "Juan de Zurbarán," Archivo español de arte 31 (1958), pp. 206-207, 210 p.
VI.Paul Guinard, Zurbarán et les peintres espagnols de la vie monastique (Paris, 1960), p. 281, no. 602.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago, A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 490.
Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Mass, 1972), pp. 15, 506, 571.
Carlo Volpe, “La natura morta,”in La pittura L’Accademia Clementina, exh. cat. (Bologna Palazzi del Podestà e di Re Enzo, 1979), p. 151.

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