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The Flight into Egypt
Venetian · c. 1545
Provenance
Ownership history
- London art market [according to a letter from Agnew to Daniel Catton Rich dated February 25, 1937 in curatorial file]; purchased by Agnew, London and New York, by 1930 [according to letter referenced above and registrar’s records]; sold by Agnew to Charles H. Worcester, Chicago, 1930, as by Schiavone [according to registrar’s records and Chicago 1930; a document dated October 11, 1945 indicates that it was owned by Mary F. S. Worcester]; intermittently on loan to the Art Institute from 1930; given to the Art Institute, 1947.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- The University of Chicago, The Renaissance Society, Religious Art from the Fourth Century to the Present Time, February 20–March 7, 1930, no. 30.
- Art Gallery of Toronto, Italian Old Masters and German Primitives, 1931, no. 31a.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–November 1, 1933, no. 133.
- Grand Rapids Art Gallery, Michigan, Community Angels Build, December 1, 1959– January 4, 1960, no. cat.
Literature
Published references
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago, 1932), p. 193.
- “A Painting by Schiavone,” Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 27 (1933), pp. 39, 44, ill.
- Daniel Catton Rich, Catalogue of the Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection of Paintings, Sculpture, and Drawings (Chicago, 1938), p. 14, no. 9, pl. VIII.
- Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Venetian School, vol. 1 (London, 1957), p. 168.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 309.
- Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972), pp. 185, 275, 571.
- Christopher Lloyd, Italian Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1993), pp. 267–69, ill.
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