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Portrait of Don Juan of Austria
Alonso Sánchez Coello · 1559–60
Provenance
Ownership history
- Ehrich Galleries, New York, by 1925, as attributed to Antonis Mor, François, duc d’Alençon [according to Kelly 1939 and the undated photograph in the library of the National Gallery of Art]. Max Epstein (d. 1954), Chicago, by 1928; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1954.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, Loan Exhibition of Old Masters from the Collections of Cyrus H. McCormick and Max Epstein, 1928, as Antonio Moro, François
- de’Alençon [sic] by (no cat.).
- Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Max Epstein Memorial Exhibition, 1955, no. 12, as Antonio Moro, François d’Alençon.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, New Light on Old Masters: Research on Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute, 26 June—14 September 2008, no cat.
Literature
Published references
- Old Masters in the Collection of Max Epstein, Chicago, 1928, n.pag. (ill.).
- “Gifts and Loans,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 22 (1928), p. 82.
- Max J. Friedländer, Die altniederländische Malerei, vol. 13, Leiden, 1936, p. 175, no. 393 (rev. English ed., Early Netherlandish Painting, Brussels and Leiden, 1975, p. 105, no. 393).
- F. M. Kelly, “Don Juan of Austria (A Postscript),” Connoisseur 103 (1939), p. 229.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection, 1961, p. 339.
- Carmen Bernis, “La moda en la España de Felipe II a través del retrato de corte,” in Alonso Sánchez Coello y el retrato en la corte de Felipe II, exh. cat., Madrid, Museo del Prado, 1990, p. 74, fig. 9.
- F[ernando] Ch[eca], Felipe II, un monarca y su época: Un príncipe de renacimiento, exh. cat., Madrid, Museo del Prado, 1998, p. 404, under no. 95.
- Maria Kusche, Retratos y retratadores: Alonso Sánchez Coello y sus competidores Sofonisba Anguissola, Jorge de la Rúa y Rolán Moys, Madrid, 2003, pp. 132, 148, 171, 559, fig. 103.
- Martha Wolff in Martha Wolff et al., Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2008, pp. 111-16, ill.
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