
Art Institute of ChicagoPublic domain
Springtime and Love
Francesco Paolo Michetti · 1878
Provenance
Ownership history
- Charles Field Haseltine (died 1915), Philadelphia, by 1883 [lent to Chicago 1883]. Albert A. Munger (died 1898), Chicago, by 1890 [this and the following according to Monroe 1892]; on loan to the Art Institute from 1890; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1901.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Paris, Exposition Universelle Internationale de 1878, May 1–November 10, 1878, cat. 115.
- Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit Art Loan Exhibition, 1883, cat. 2639.
- Chicago, The Art Gallery at the Chicago Interstate Industrial Exposition, September 5–October 20, 1883, cat 134.
- Philadelphia, Stevens’ Galleries, A Great Collection of Paintings belonging to Mr. Charles F. Haseltine, January 1886, cat. 231.
- Chicago, World’s Columbian Exposition, May 1–October 30, 1893, cat. 2945.
- Buffalo, New York, Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery, The Inaugural Loan Exhibition, May 31–July 1, 1905, cat. 44.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Art at the Time of the Centennial, June 19–August 8, 1976, no cat.
Literature
Published references
- Philip Gilbert Hamerton, “Continental Painting,” Atlas Series no. 21: Modern Schools of Art (1880), pp. 66–67.
- “The New Pictures,” Art Loan Record 1, 19 (1883), p. 148; reprinted Art Loan Record 1, 20 (1883), p. 160
- “The New Pictures,” Art Loan Record 1, 21 (1883), p. 168.
- “Technique,” Art Loan Record 1, 21 (1883), p. 163.
- Bessie, “The Last Words of Bessie,” Art Loan Record 1, 24 (1883), p. 189.
- “A Talk about Pictures,” A Delsartean Scrap-Book (New York: United States Book Company, 1891), p. 211.
- Lucy B. Monroe, “Art in Chicago,” The New England Magazine 6, 4 (1892), p. 427.
- Ernest Knaufft, “Art at the Columbian Exposition,” The Review of Reviews 7, 41 (1893), p. 552.
- Lucy Monroe, “Chicago Letter,” The Critic 20, 594 (1893), p. 30.
- John Moses and Paul Selby, The White City: The Historical, Biographical and Philanthropical Record of Illinois (Chicago: Chicago World Book Company, 1893), p. 66.
- William A. Coffin, “The Columbian Exposition. V – Fine Arts: The French Pictures and the Loan Collection,” The Nation 57, 1470 (1893), p. 152.
- World’s Columbian Exposition 1893: Revised Catalogue: Department of Fine Arts with Index of Exhibitors, exh. cat. (Chicago: W. B. Conkey Company, 1893), p. 147, cat. 3013.
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