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Portrait of the Artist's Father, Ismael Mengs
Anton Raphael Mengs · 1747–48
Provenance
Ownership history
- Private collection or dealer in Cincinnati, Ohio, late 1930s [according to conversation of Philip Pinsof and Tiffany Johnston, 7 February 2002, notes in curatorial file]; Philip Pinsof, Wilmette, from late 1930s [according to conversation cited above]; given to the Art Institute, 1962.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Allentown, Penn., Allentown Art Museum, The World of Benjamin West, May 1-July 31, 1962, cat. 42 (ill.).
- Storrs, Conn., William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Rome in the 18th Century, October 13-November 19, 1973, cat. 97.
Literature
Published references
- Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report 1961-62 (Chicago, 1962), p. 13.
- Steffi Röttgen, “Two portraits by Mengs in the Art Institute of Chicago,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 5 (1970), pp. 72-74, fig. 3.
- Thomas Pelzel, Anton Raphael Mengs and Neoclassicism (New York and London, 1979), pp. 36-37, fig. 12.
- Barbara Steindl, “Anton Raphael Mengs” in Dictionary of Art, vol. 21 (London, 1996), p. 131.
- Steffi Röettgen, Anton Raphael Mengs 1728-1779 (Munich, 1999), p. 291, no. 222 (ill.).
- Palais Dorotheum, Vienna, 7 April, 2006, Alte Meister, 2123, auction catalogue, p. 244, under lot 210.
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