
Portrait of Louise de Halluin, dame de Cipierre
Corneille de Lyon · c. 1555
Provenance
Ownership history
- Dr. Paul Mersch, Paris, July 1912 [according to Max Friedländer’s authentication dated Berlin, July 3, 1912, on a photograph in the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentie., The Hague]. Senateur Colin, Paris, by June 1913 [Kleinberger stock card, Department of European paintings, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York]; sold to Kleinberger, Paris, June 1913 [Kleinberger stock card cited above]; sold to Martin A. Ryerson (d. 1932), Chicago, for 30,000 fr., June 20, 1913 [Kleinberger stock card cited above]; on loan to the Art Institute from 1913;6 bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1933.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, Kleinberger, Loan Exhibition of French Primitives and Ibjects of Art, 1927, no. 66.
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–Nov. 1, 1933, cat. 11.
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–Nov. 1, 1934, cat. 10.
Literature
Published references
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, Paintings, and Drawings, vol. 2, August 1920, p. 61.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection, 1925, no. 2015.
- Rose Mary Fischkin, “Martin A. Ryerson Collection of Paintings and Sculpture, XIII to XVII Century, Loaned to The Art Institute of Chicago,” unpub. MS, 1926, Ryerson Library, The Art Institute of Chicago, pp. 146–27.
- Daniel Catton Rich, “The Paintings of Martin A. Ryerson,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 27 (1933), p. 12.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection, 1961, p. 84.
- Anne Dubois de Groër, Corneille de La Haye, dit Corneille de Lyon, Paris, 1996, pp. 216–18, no. 132 (ill.).
- Susan Frances Jones in Martha Wolff et al., Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 2008), pp. 10-13, ill.
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