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Saint Paul

Leandro Gagliardi · 1765/66

Provenance

Ownership history

Commissioned by Cardinal Flavio II Chigi, Rome, before 1776 [see González-Palacios 1993 and Philadelphia 2000 exh. cat.]; by descent to Prince Ludovico Chigi Albani della Rovere (died 1951), Rome [according to letter from Giovanni Incisa della Rocchetta to A. S. Ciechanowiecki, May 17, 1971, copy in curatorial file]; by descent to his nephew, Prince Mario Ludovico Chigi Albani della Rovere, Rome [according to an undated, anonymous note; June 15, 1971 memo by John Keefe; and Heim Gallery correspondence in curatorial file; see also Keefe 1977]. Heim Gallery, London, through Artibus, Geneva, by 1971; sold by Heim Gallery to the Art Institute, 1971.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Philadelphia Museum of Art, "Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century," 16 March - 28 May 2000, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 25 June - 17 September 2000, cat. 72.

Literature

Romolo Trinchieri, "Una villa settecentessca poco nota: Villa Chigi," Amor di Roma 30 (1955), p. 420.
Giovanni Incisa della Rocchetta, "Villa Chigi," Capitolium 36, 8 (August 1961), p. 6.
Isa Belli Barsali, Ville di Roma (Milan, 1970), pp. 334 nos. 4 and 6, 339.
Art Institute of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report 1970–71, p. 80 (ill.).
Vincenzo Golzio, Palazzi Romani, dalla Rinascita al neoclassico (Bologna, 1971), p. 85, fig. 93.
"Museum Accessions," Antiques 51, 4 (April 1972), p. 636 (ill.).
John W. Keefe, The Antiquarian Society of the Art Institute of Chicago: The First One Hundred Years (Chicago, 1977), p. 94.
Alvar González-Palacios, Il Gusto dei Principi (Milan, 1993), vol. 1, pp. 185–87; vol. 2, figs. 317, 321.
Ghenete Zelleke, "David Adler: Benefactor and Trustee," David Adler, Architect, edited by Martha Thorne (Chicago, 2002), p. 66.

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