
Art Institute of ChicagoPublic domain
Sinan Reis and Hayreddin Barbarossa
Italian · c. 1535
Provenance
Ownership history
- Possibly Paolo Giovio (died 1552), Como [on the basis of a letter from Giovio to Rodolfo Pio dated August 20, 1535 that states, “…e io vi mandarò il bravo ritratto di Barbarossa, il quale ho qui…”, see Klinger and Raby 1989, p. 48]. Private collection, Treviso [according to registrar’s records]. Carlo Foresti, Milan, by 1930 [according to an undated document in curatorial files]; sold by Foresti to Charles H. Worcester, Chicago, 1930 [according to document cited above]; given to the Art Institute, 1947.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June–November 1, 1933, no. 103.
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June–November 1, 1934, no. 43.
- The Toledo Museum of Art, Four Centuries of Venetian Painting, March 1940, no. 5.
- Appleton, Wisconsin, The Worcester Fine Arts Center, Lawrence College, Exhibition, 1950, no cat.
- San Francisco, The California Palace of the Legion of Honor and The M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, Man–Glory, Jest, and Riddle: A Survey of the Human Form through the Ages, November 10, 1964–January 3, 1965, no. 95.
Literature
Published references
- C. J. Bulliet, “Masterpieces in Official Fine Arts Show,” Chicago Daily News (October 28, 1933), p. 10, ill.
- Alfred M. Frankfurter, “Art in the Century of Progress,” Fine Arts 20 (June 1933), p. 14, ill.
- Raimond van Marle, The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, vol. 17 (The Hague, 1935), pp. 154–55, ill.
- Frank Jewett Mather, Jr., Venetian Painters (New York, 1936), p. 47, ill.
- Daniel Catton Rich, Catalogue of the Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection of Paintings, Sculpture, and Drawings (Chicago, 1938), pp. 7–8, no. 4, pl. III.
- “Chicago Gets Handsome Gift,” Pictures on Exhibit 9, 7 (April 1947), p. 14.
- Katharine Kuh, “The Worcester Gift,” Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 41 (1947), pp. 59, 61, cover ill.
- “To Dedicate Art at New Building: Old Master Collection Honors Art Patrons,” Lawrentian (May 26, 1950), p. 4.
- Frederick A. Sweet, “La pittura italiana all’Art Institute di Chicago,” Le vie del mondo: Rivista mensile del Touring Club Italiano 15 (1953), pp. 696–98, ill.
- Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Venetian School, vol. 1 (London, 1957), p. 29.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 21.
- Hans Huth, “Italienische Kunstwerke im Art Institute von Chicago, USA,” in Miscellanea Bibliothecae Hertzianae (Munich, 1961), p. 517.
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