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Panthea, Cyrus, and Araspas

Laurent de La Hyre · 1631-34

Provenance

Ownership history

Art market, Germany [according to Paris 1982, no. 31]. Sold at a public sale, Milan, to Ettore Viancini, Venice [letter of August 24, 1976 from Pierre Rosenberg to Patrice Marandel and note of conversation of Susan Wise with Patrice Marandel in curatorial file]; sold by Viancini to Gilberto Algranti, Milan and London [according to letter and note cited above]; sold by Algranti to Silvano Lodi, Campione d’Italia, and Bruno Meissner, Zurich, 1973 [according to letter and note cited above], passed solely into Meissner’s possession [letter from Bruno Meissner to Susan Wise dated May, 1981 in curatorial file]; sold by Meissner to Art Institute, 1976.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, La Peinture française du XVIIe siècle dans les collections américaines, 1982, cat. 31.
Musée de Grenoble, Laurent de La Hyre, 1606–1656: L’Homme et l’oeuvre, June 13-April 3, 1989, cat. 104; Rennes, France, Musée des Beaux-Arts et d' Archéologie, May 9-August 31, 1989; Bordeaux, Musée des Beaux-Arts, October 6, 1989-January 6, 1990 [Grenoble only].
Chicago, David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, The Theartical Baroque, 2001, cat. 180.

Literature

Published references

[Georges de Scudéry], Le Cabinet de Mr de Scudery, gouverneur de Nostre Dame de La Garde, pt. 1, Paris, 1646, p. 51; reprint, Geneva, 1973.
P[ierre] J[ean] Mariette, Abécédario de P. J. Mariette et autres notes inédites de cet amateur sur les arts et les artistes, vol.3, in Archives de l’art français, vol. 6, Paris, 1854–56, p. 45 no. 1.
Burlington Magazine 118 (1976), p. xcviii (ill.).
“La Chronique des arts: Principales Acquisitions des musées en 1975,” Gazette des Beaux-Arts 6th ser., 89 (1977), suppl. to no., 1293, p. 49, no. 192, ill.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Master Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1978, p. 25, no. 19.
André Chastel, “Les Etats-Unis et la peinture française: Entre Rome et Paris,” Le Monde, February 2, 1982, p. 13.
Jean Pierre Cuzin, “New York: French Seventeenth-Century Paintings from American Collections,” Burlington Magazine 124 (1982), pp. 529–30.
Patrice Dubois, “La Première Ecole de Paris,” L’Amateur d’art 680 (1982), pp. 9–10 (ill., cover ill).
J. V. Hantz, “La Peinture française du XVIIe siècle dans les collections américaines,” L’Amateur d’art 680 (1982), p. 19.
Robert Fohr, Tours, Musée des Beaux-Arts; Richelieu, Musée Municipal; Azay-le-Ferron, Château: Tableaux français et italiens du XVIIe siècle, Inventaire des collections publiques françaises 27, Paris, 1982, p. 50, under no. 41.
Ekkehard Mai, “La Peinture française du XVIIe siècle dans les collections américaines,” Pantheon 40 (1982), p. 153, fig 2.
Pierre Rosenberg, “France in the Golden Age: A Postscript,” Metropolitan Museum Journal 17 (1982), p. 27, no. 31.

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