Portrait of a Girl with a Dog by Alessandro Longhi
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Portrait of a Girl with a Dog

Alessandro Longhi · c. 1770

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Francesco Zanetti, Venice [according to Rich 1938]. Italico Brass, Venice, by 1929 [lent to Venice 1929; see also letter of June 8, 1930, from Lionello Venturi to Charles Worcester, copy in curatorial file]; sold to Charles Worcester for $5,944.78, August 1930 [according to letter of August 23, 1930, from Italico Brass to Charles Worcester, copy in curatorial file]; given by Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester to the Art Institute, February 27, 1947.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Venice, Palazzo delle Biennale, Il settecento italiano, July 18-October 10, 1929, cat. 16.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Exhibition of Portraits of Children in the Children’s Museum, February 26-March 30, 1931, cat. 23.

Literature

Published references

  • Helen Mackenzie, “An Exhibition of Portraits of Children,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 25, 3 (1931), p. 37 (ill.).
  • Ugo Ojetti, Il settecento italiano, vol. 1 (Milan and Rome: Bestetti and Tumminelli, 1932), no. 72, pl. 49.
  • Daniel Catton Rich, Catalogue of the Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection of Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings (Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1938), no. 26, pl. 18.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 262.

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