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Portrait of a Woman with a Prayer Book
Bartholomaeus Bruyn, the younger · c. 1565
Provenance
Ownership history
- Galerie Sedelmeyer, Paris, by 1891 [according to Firmenich-Richartz 1891]. Chester H. Johnson Galleries, Chicago, by 1927 [Invoice dated Nov. 5, 1927, copy in curatorial file.]; sold to Charles H. Worcester, Chicago, Nov. 5, 1927; on loan to the AIC intermittently from 1928; given to the AIC, 1940.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, Kleinberger, Loan Exhibition of German Primitives for the Benefit of the American Red Cross, 1928, no. 54.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Loan Exhibition of Old Masters, 1928–29 (no cat.).
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1933, no. 7.
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1934, no. 7.
- Appleton, Wisc., Worcester Art Center, Lawrence University, 1950 (no cat.).
Literature
Published references
- Eduard Firmenich-Richartz, Bartholomaeus Bruyn und seine Schule, Leipzig, 1891, p. 147.
- Frank E. Washburn Freund, “Ausstellung altdeutscher Malerei in den F. Kleinberger Galleries zu New York,” Belvedere 8 (1929), p. 285.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection, 1932, p. 191, no. 974.28.
- “The Rearrangement of the Painting Gal-leries,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 27 (1933), pp. 112–13 (ill.).
- Daniel Catton Rich, “German Art in Chicago,” American-German Review 1, 4 (1935), pp. 2 (ill.), 38.
- Charles L. Kuhn, A Catalogue of German Paintings of the Middle Ages and Renaissance in American Collections, Cambridge, Mass., 1936, p. 29, no. 43.
- Daniel Catton Rich, ed., Catalogue of the Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection of Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings, Chicago, 1938, p. 45, no. 42, pl. 30.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, A Brief Illustrated Guide to the Collections, 1941, p. 28.
- Frederick A. Sweet, “Wom-an with Prayer Book by Bartel Bruyn the Younger,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 35 (1941), p. 34 (cover ill.).
- The Art Institute of Chicago, An Illustrated Guide to the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, 1945, p. 30.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, An Illustrated Guide to the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, 1948, p. 27.
- “To Dedicate Art at New Building; Old Master Collection Honors Art Patrons,” Lawrentian (Appleton, Wisc.), May 26, 1950, p. 4.
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