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Saint Peter Martyr Exorcizing a Woman Possessed by a Devil
Antonio Vivarini · c. 1450
Provenance
Ownership history
- Paolo Paolini, Rome; sold American Art Association, New York, December 10–11, 1924, no. 90, as Quirizio da Murano, to George F. Harding, Jr. [according to Harding Museum papers in the Art Institute archives]; George F. Harding , Jr. (d. 1939), Chicago, from 1924; bequeathed to the George F. Harding Museum, Chicago; offered for sale Sotheby’s, New York, December 2, 1976, no 28, ill., withdrawn; transferred to the Art Institute, 1983.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Literature
Published references
- Raimond van Marle, The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, vol. 17 (The Hague, 1935), p. 49.
- Georg Pudelko, “Ein Petrus-Martyr-Altar des Antonio Vivarini,” Pantheon 20 (1937), p. 284, ill.
- Margaretta M. Salinger, “A Gift of Two Italian Paintings,” The Bulletin of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 33 (1938), pp. 8–10.
- Giuseppe Fiocco, “Le pitture venete del Castello di Konopiste,” Arte veneta 11 (1948), p. 20, ill.
- Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Venetian School, vol. 1 (London, 1957), p. 200, pl. 84.
- Rodolfo Pallucchini, I Vivarini (Venice, 1962), pp. 27, 98, no. 20, fig. 20.
- Rodolfo Pallucchini, “Giunte ai Vivarini,” Arte veneta 21 (1967), p. 200.
- Fern Rusk Shapley, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XV-XVI Century (London, 1968), p. 31, under no. K1116.
- Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972), pp. 211, 444, 572.
- Federico Zeri and Elizabeth E. Gardner, Italian Paintings. A Catalogue of the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Venetian School (New York, 1973), p. 89.
- George Kaftal with Fabio Bisogni, Saints in Italian Art: Iconography of the Saints in the Painting of North East Italy (Florence, 1978), no. 236, col. 845.
- Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Gemäldegalerie, Catalogue of Paintings, 13th–18th Century, 2d ed. (Berlin-Dahlem, 1978), p. 470, under nos. 66, 67.
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