Lady at Her Toilette by Pietro Longhi
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Lady at Her Toilette

Pietro Longhi · Late 1740s

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Dr. Max Emden (died 1941) [according to Registrar's receipt in curatorial file and letter from Walter Feilchenfeldt, dated August 7, 2002, in curatorial file]; sold by his estate to Walter Feilchenfeldt Sr., Switzerland, 1941; sold to the Art Institute, 1947.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Seattle Art Museum, Renaissance and Baroque Art, Feb.–Mar. 1950, cat. 68.
  • New York, American Federation of Arts, Picture of the Month Tour, Oct. 1, 1956–Jan. 31, 1957.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Painting in Italy in the Eighteenth Century, Sep. 19–Nov. 8, 1970, cat. 27; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Dec. 3, 1970 –Jan. 10, 1971; Toledo Museum of Art, Feb. 7–Mar. 21, 1971.

Literature

Published references

  • Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute, 1961), 262.
  • Terisio Pignatti, Pietro Longhi (Venice: Alfieri, 1968), 187, no. 137.
  • Rodolfo Pallucchini, “La pittura veneta del settecento alla mostra itinerante di Chicago-Minneapolis-Toledo,” Art veneta 24 (1970): 291.
  • John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1970), 262 (ill.), 283.
  • Hans Huth, “Italienische Kunstwerke im Art Institute von Chicago, USA,” in Römische Forschungen der Bibliothecae Hertziana (Vienna, 1961), 518.
  • Teriso Pignatti, L’opera completa di Pietro Longhi (Milan, Rizzoli, 1974), 96, no. 134.

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