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Plate with Narcissus, Cupid, and Echo Transformed
Francesco Xanto Avelli · c. 1530
Provenance
Ownership history
- Frédéric Spitzer (died 1890), Paris; his sale, Paris, Chevallier and Mannheim, April 17 - June 16, 1893, see Molinier 1892, p. 33, no. 49; acquired by Durand-Ruel as agent for Martin A. Ryerson [according to copy of receipt in curatorial file]; Martin A. Ryerson, Chicago (d. 1932); by descent to his widow (d. 1937); bequeathed to the museum, 1937.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Literature
Published references
- Greta Kaucher, Le peintre du Marsyas de Milan. La majolique historiée à Urbino en 1530 (Paris: Feu et Talent, 2024), 74, 317, no. VI.
- Émile Molinier, La collection Spitzer, vol. 4: Les faiences italiennes, hispano-moresques et orientales (Paris: 1892), 33, no. 49.
- Joan Prentice von Erdberg and Marvin C. Ross, Catalogue of the Italian Majolica in the Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore: 1952), 25, no. 50.
- Jörg Rasmussen, The Robert Lehman Collection. vol. 10, Italian Majolica (New York: 1989), 131, no. 76.
- Timothy Wilson, Italian Maiolica of the Renaissance (Milan: 1996), 188, 190.
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