Old Beggar Carrying Child by Simon Troger
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Old Beggar Carrying Child

Simon Troger · c. 1735–c. 1750

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Morris I. Kaplan (died 1966), Chicago; heirs of Morris I. Kaplan; his son Stuart M. Kaplan, Chicago; sold by him to the Art Institute, 1991.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Literature

Published references

  • Ian Wardropper, “Collecting European Sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago,” Apollo 154, 475 (2001), pp. 7-8, 12, fig. 7.
  • Ian Wardropper, "Sculpture and Mosaic in Pietre Dure" Art of the Royal Court: Treasures in Pietre Dure from the Palaces of Europe, exh. cat., ed. Wolfram Koeppe and Annamaria Giusti (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2008), pp. 80, 83, fig. 86.
  • Scott Defrin, "Recognizing the Hand of Simon Troger (1683-1768)" in Barocke Kunststückh: Festschrift für Christian Theuerkauff, ed. Regine Marth and Marjorie Trusted (Munich, 2011), pp. 180, 184.

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