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Orpheus Playing the Lyre to Hades and Persephone, from Orpheus and Eurydice or The Metamorphoses
Wauters Workshop · c. 1685
Provenance
Ownership history
- Marshall Field and Co., Chicago, by June 19, 1952 [incoming receipt, RX646, June 19, 1952; copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1952.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, Tapestries from the Permanent Collection, June 30-Sept. 30, 1979.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Regenstein Hall, The Divine Art: Four Centuries of European Tapestry, Nov. 1, 2008–Jan. 4, 2009.
Literature
Published references
- Wendy Hefford, "The Chicago Pygmalion and the 'English Metamorphisis.'" In The Art Institute of Chicago Centennial Lectures, Museum Studies 10 (Chicago: Contemporary Books, Inc., 1983), 99.
- Dora Heinz, Europäische Tapisseriekunst des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts: Die Geschichte ihrer Produktionsstätten und ihrer künstlerischen Zielsetzungen (Böhlau Verlag, 1995), 74.
- Christa C. Mayer Thurman 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, (Brepols Publishers, 2003), 171-184, fig. 3.
- Koenraad Brosens, ed., Christa C. Mayer Thurman, gen. ed., European Tapestries in the Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat., [exhibition: "The Divine Art: Four Centuries of European Tapestries in the Art Institute of Chicago"] (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2008) 199-206, cat. 28 (ill.).
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