
The Meeting of Gautier, Count of Antwerp, and his Daughter, Violante
Giuseppe Cades · c. 1787
Provenance
Ownership history
- Marcus Galerie, Paris, by 1959 [according to Rome 1959]. Private collection, France [according to fact sheet provided by Wildenstein]. Wildenstein and Co., New York by 1963; sold to the Art Institute, 1963.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Rome, Palazzo della Esposizioni, March 19–May 31, 1959, cat. 113.
- Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland Museum of Art, Neo-Classicism: Style and Motif, September 21–November 1, 1964.
- Chicago, Art Institute, Painting in Italy in the Eighteenth Century, September 9–November 8, 1970; Minneapolis, Museum of Arts, December 3, 1970–January 10, 1971; Toledo, Museum of Art, February 7–March 21, 1971.
- Storrs, Connecticut, Benton Museum of Art (University of Connecticut), Rome in the 18th Century, October 13–November 19, 1973, cat. 123.
- Philadelphia Museum of Art, Art In Rome in the Eighteenth Century, February 27-May 21, 2000; Houston, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, June 17-September 17, 2000.
Literature
Published references
- Giulio Cantalamessa, “Un quadro inavvetito di Giuseppe Cades nella Galleria Borghese,” Bolletino d’arte (1918), p. 82.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 64.
- Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly 57 (1963–64), p. 2, ill.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report 1963–64 (Chicago, 1964), p. 19.
- Robert Rosenblum, “Neoclassicism Surveyed,” Burlington Magazine 107 (January 1965), p. 33.
- John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (London, 1970), pp. 262, 268, ill.
- The Academy of Europe: Rome in the 18th Century, exh. cat. (Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, Connecticut, 1973), no. 123.
- Maria Teresa Caracciolo, Giuseppe Cades 1750–1799 et la Rome de son Temps (Paris, 1990), pp. 294–95, no. 93 D, ill.
- Beverly Louise Brown, Giambattista Tiepolo. Master of the Oil Sketch exh. cat. (Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, 1993), pp. 60–61, fig. 33.
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