Pygmalion from Stories from Ovid by Wauters Workshop
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Pygmalion from Stories from Ovid

Wauters Workshop · c. 1675

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Mrs. Arthur Cutten, Chicago, by Mar. 2, 1983 [incoming receipt RX865, Mar. 2, 1953; copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1953.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Art Institute of Chicago, Tapestries from the Permanent Collection, June 30-Sept. 30, 1979.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Regenstein Hall, The Divine Art: Four Centuries of European Tapestry, Nov. 1, 2008–Jan. 4, 2009.

Literature

Published references

  • Wendy Hefford, "The Chicago Pygmalion and the 'English Metamorphisis.'" In The Art Institute of Chicago Centennial Lectures, Museum Studies 10 (Chicago: Contemporary Books, Inc., 1983), 92-117, fig. 9 (ill.).
  • Dora Heinz, Europäische Tapisseriekunst des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts: Die Geschichte ihrer Produktionsstätten und ihrer künstlerischen Zielsetzungen (Böhlau Verlag, 1995), 77-78, fig. 24.
  • Koenraad Brosens, ed., Christa C. Mayer Thurman, gen. ed., European Tapestries in the Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat., [exhibition: "The Divine Art: Four Centuries of European Tapestries in the Art Institute of Chicago"] (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2008) 199-206, cat. 27 (ill.).

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