The Battle of Actium from The Story of Caesar and Cleopatra
Workshop of Willem van Leefdael · c. 1680
Provenance
Ownership history
- Possibly the Villalonga family, Mallorca, to 1914 at the latest; Charles Deering (died 1927), Marycel, Sitges, Spain, by 1914; by descent to his daughters Mrs. Chauncey McCormick (born Marion Deering, died 1965) and Mrs. Ely Danielson (born Barbara Deering, died 1982); given to the Art Institute, 1944.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, Dinner with the Presidents, Oct. 27-Dec. 3, 1961.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Regenstein Hall, The Divine Art: Four Centuries of European Tapestry, Nov. 1, 2008–Jan. 4, 2009.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Deering Family Galleries, Mar. 28, 2018-May 28, 2019.
Literature
Published references
- Jose Martino Arroyo, Marycel (Barcelona: Revista de arquitectura, 1918), n.p. (photographed in the Salón (pequeño) de tapices (ill.).
- Koenraad Brosens, ed., Christa C. Mayer Thurman, gen. ed., European Tapestries in the Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat., [exhibition: "The Divine Art: Four Centuries of European Tapestries in the Art Institute of Chicago"] (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2008) 138-165, cat. 19N (ill.).
- Christa C. Mayer Thurman, with the assistance of Pilar Viladomiu, The Saga of the Cleopatra Tapestries (December 22, 2023): https://www.artic.edu/articles/1102/the-saga-of-the-cleopatra-tapestries
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