
The Champs-Elysées
Louis Nicolas van Blarenberghe · 1775
Provenance
Ownership history
- Private Collection, Paris, prior to French Revolution. Baron Mayer Amschel de Rothschild (died 1874), Mentmore, Leighton Buzzard, England [London 1977]; by descent to his daughter, Mme Hannah de Rothschild Mentmore [London 1977]; by descent to her son, the 6th Earl of Rosebery, Albert Edward Harry Mayer Archibald Primrose, Mentmore [La Revue de l’Art 1933]; sold, Sotheby’s, London, May 25, 1977, Rosebery sale, lot 2603. British Rail Pension Fund; sold by Lexbourne Ltd., London, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1989.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "New Acquisitions: Old Masters of the 15th-18th Centuries," December 2, 1989-June 8, 1990.
- New York, The Frick Collection, "From Pontormo to Seurat: Drawings Recently Acquired by The Art Institute of Chicago," April 23-July 7, 1991, n.p., cat. 25; The Art Institute of Chicago, September 10, 1991-January 5, 1992.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Broad Spectrum: Color on Paper, Past and Present," September 12–October 31, 1999, hors. cat.
Literature
Published references
- Mentmore II, p. 39.
- H.S. Bodin, "La Collection Rosebery," Revue de l’Art, LXIV (July 1933), p. 82 (ill.).
- Anthony Blunt, The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddeson Manor-Gold Boxes and Miniatured by the van Blarenberghes (1975), pp. 243-44 (ill.).
- Suzanne Folds McCullagh, “‘A Lasting Monument’: The Regenstein Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26, 1 (2000), pp. 11-12.
- "Maineri to Miró; The Regenstein Collection Since 1975," The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26 (2000), pp. 54-55 (ill.).
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