
The Crossing of the Granicus from The Story of Alexander the Great
Karel van Mander, II · 1619
Provenance
Ownership history
- Prince Anatoli Demidoff (died 1870), Villa San Donato, Florence, Italy, presumably from 1840; by descent to his nephew Paul Demidoff (1839-1885); sold at auction from Villa San Donato, Florence, 1880, lot 109 (all nine tapestries). Jennie McGraw Fiske (d. 1881), Ithaca, New York, to 1881; presumably by decent to her husband Daniel Willard Fiske (d. 1904) or another relative. Purchased by the Antiquarian Society of the Art Institute of Chicago for $10,000, 1911; given to the Art Institute, 1911.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, The Antiquarian Society of The Art Institute of Chicago: The First One Hundred Years, Apr. 23–May 19, 1977.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Regenstein Hall, The Divine Art: Four Centuries of European Tapestry, Nov. 1, 2008–Jan. 4, 2009.
- Art Institute of Chicago, The Deering Family Galleries, Gallery 239A, Mar. 17, 2017-Mar. 28, 2018.
Literature
Published references
- "Flemish Tapestry," Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago vol. 6, no. 2 (Oct 1912): 21 (ill.).
- George Leland Hunter, "Tapestries in the Chicago Art Institute," The House Beautiful 35, no. 4 (Mar. 1914): 120, fig. 5 (ill.).
- G. L. Hunter, The Practical Book of Tapestries, (Philadelphia, 1925), 136.
- John W. Keefe, et al., The Antiquarian Society of the Art Institute of Chicago: The First One Hundred Years, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1977), 185, no. 242 (ill.).
- Hartkamp-Jonix and Smit 2004, 224, fig. 84.
- 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) 341-344, cat. 57.
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