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Saint Joseph and the Sleeping Christ Child
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo · 1670/75
Provenance
Ownership history
- Possibly Alleyne Fitzherbert, Baron St. Helens (1783–1839). Sold, Christie's, London, May 26, 1840, lot 102 (one of a pair). Private collection, Scotland; sold, Phillips, London, Dec. 3, 1997, lot 120, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA.; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, "Gifts of a Lifetime, Old Master Drawings," Dec. 11, 1998–Mar. 30, 1999, checklist 19.
- Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 37, cat. 12 (ill.).
- Art Institute of Chicago, "The Thrill of the Chase: Drawings for the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," March 15-June 15, 2014, no cat.
Literature
Published references
- “Scotland Yard Sale”, Top 100 Treasures (Mar. 1998), p. 77.
- Suzanne Folds McCullagh, “Drawings in The Art Institute of Chicago,” Master Drawings 38:3 (Fall 2000), p. 247.
- Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), p. 37, cat. 12 (ill.).
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