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The Fall of Man with Scenes of the Creation
Augustus Cordus · 1544
Provenance
Ownership history
- John Warne Gates (d. 1911), Chicago and New York; by descent to his widow, Dellora Baker Gates (d. 1918); by descent to her niece Dellora Angell Norris, St. Charles, Ill.; on loan to the AIC on her behalf from her father, R. F. Angell, from 1923, as by Albrecht Dürer [registrar’s receipt, May 18, 1923]; given by her to the AIC, 1970.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Literature
Published references
- W.A.P., “The Angell Collection,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 17 (1923), pp. 51–52.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection, 1925, p. 167, no. 2220.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection, 1932, p. 190, no. 2360.23.
- Charles L. Kuhn, A Catalogue of German Paintings of the Middle Ages and Renaissance in American Collections, Cambridge, Mass., 1936, p. 38, no. 97, p. 101.
- “Recent Accessions of American and Canadian Museums, October–December 1970,” Art Quarterly 34 (1971), pp. 249, 260 (ill.).
- Martha Wolff in Martha Wolff et al., Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2008, pp. 341-3, ill.
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