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Pierre E. Guerin (firm) · 1860–70
Provenance
Ownership history
- By descent through the Kaelber family, Rochester, New York; Peter Hill, East Lempster, New Hampshire, by 1985; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1985.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Literature
Published references
- The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report, 1984–1985 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1985), 33, fig. 22.
- Magazine Antiques (Oct. 1988), 828–39 (ill.).
- Judith A. Barter, et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 235–237, no. 112.
- Barbara Laux, "Bronze Treasures: The Furniture Mounts of P. E. Guerin," (Master's Thesis, Cooper-Hewitt/National Design Museum and Parson's School of Design, 1999), 64, 68, ill. 28 (ill.).
- Barbara Laux, “The Furniture Mounts of P.E. Guerin,” Magazine Antiques 161, no. 5 (May 2002): 140–41, pl. 1 (ill.).
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