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Portrait of a Court Lady
Follower of Antonis Mor · c. 1565
Provenance
Ownership history
- Marchese Alessandro Pallavicino, Duke Grimaldi; sold, Galerie Sangiorgi, Palazzo Pallavicino-Grimaldi, Genoa, Nov. 29–Dec. 2, 1899, no. 276, as Venetian School, to Murray [according to annotated catalogue at the library of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.]; Charles Fairfax Murray, London, from 1899; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, June 15, 1914, no. 21 [according to annotated catalogue at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles]. Julius Weitzner, London, by 1928; sold to Ehrich Galleries, New York, May 1928 [according to the Chester Dale Papers, Archives of American Art, Washington, D.C.];sold, American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, New York, Apr. 2, 1931, no. 66 (ill.), to John Levy Galleries; sold to Ehrich Galleries [Chester Dale Papers, Archives of American Art]; sold, American Art Association, Apr. 18–19, 1934, no. 43, to Chester Dale, New York, for $450 [Chester Dale Papers, Archives of American Art]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1951.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Paintings by Old Masters, 1929, no. 25.
- New York, Ehrich Galleries, Comparative Portrait Exhibition of Paintings by Dutch, Flemish, German, Italian, Spanish, French, English and American Old Masters, 1931, no. 9.
Literature
Published references
- “Comparative Portrait Exhibition: Ehrich Galleries,” Art News 29, 15 (1931), p. 10.
- Georges Marlier, Anthonis Mor van Dashorst (Antonio Moro), Brussels, 1934, p. 107, no. 85.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection, 1961, p. 338.
- Joanna Woodall, “The Portraiture of Antonis Mor,” Ph.D. diss., University of London, 1990, pp. 555, 649, under no. 46.
- Martha Wolff in Martha Wolff et al., Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2008, pp. 267-70, ill.
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