The Dream of Paris by Monogrammist PG
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The Dream of Paris

Monogrammist PG · 1536

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Dr. Reuling, Baltimore, 1902 [according to the catalogue of the Stillwell sale]. Dr. John E. Stillwell, New York, by 1927; sold, American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, New York, Dec. 1–3, 1927, no. 454, as Georg Pentz [sic], to Kleinberger for $4,750 [according to Charles Worcester’s annotation on the back of a photo in the curatorial file]. Kleinberger, New York and Paris, 1927–Oct. 1928; sold to Charles H. Worcester, Chicago, 1928 [invoice dated Oct. 13, 1928, Art Institute Archives; copy in curatorial file]; on loan to the AIC from 1928; given to the AIC, 1940.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • New York, Kleinberger, Loan Exhibition of German Primitives for the Benefit of the American Red Cross, 1928, no. 51, as Georg Pentz [sic].
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Loan Exhibition of Old Masters, 1928–29 (no cat.).
  • Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1934, no. 14, as attributed to Matthias Gerung.

Literature

Published references

  • “Early German Exhibition at Kleinberger’s,” Art News 27, 6 (1928), p. 5.
  • Frank Jewett Mather, Jr., “An Exhibition of German Primitives,” Arts 14 (1928), pp. 311–12.
  • Frank E. Washburn Freund, “Ausstellung altdeutscher Malerei in den F. Kleinberger Galleries zu New York,” Belvedere 8 (1929), p. 285.
  • Hertha Wescher-Kauert, “Zu den malerischen Anfängen des Matthias Gerung,” Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst 63 (1929–30), pp. 150–53 (ill.).
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection, 1932, p. 193, no. 1104.28.
  • Charles L. Kuhn, A Catalogue of German Paintings of the Middle Ages and Renaissance in American Collections, Cambridge, Mass., 1936, p. 57, no. 215.
  • Daniel Catton Rich, ed., Catalogue of the Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection of Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings, Chicago, 1938, pp. 43–44, no. 40, pl. 29.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection, 1961, p. 177.
  • Mikhail Iakovlevich Libman, Zhivopis i risunok Germanii i Avstrii XV–XIX vekov, exh. cat., Moscow, [Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts], 1963, p. 28, under no. 602.
  • [Kurt Löcher], “Staatsgalerie Stuttgart: Neuerwerbungen 1967,” Jahrbuch der staatlichen Kunstsummlungen in Baden-Württemberg 5 (1968), p. 202.
  • John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago, London, 1970, pp. 254 (ill.), 282.
  • Dieter Koepplin and Tilman Falk, Lukas Cranach: Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Druckgraphik, vol. 2, exh. cat., Kunstmuseum Basel, 1976, p. 532, under no. 381.

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