
The Offering of the Boar's Head from The Story of Meleager and Atalanta
Workshop of Jan II Leyniers · 1673/86
Provenance
Ownership history
- Lehmann Bernheimer (1841-1918), Bernheimer-Haus, Munich, in 1917; sold to Maurice L. Rothschild (1864-1941), Chicago, by 1917; by descent to his wife, Hulda Rothschild (1878-1980, born Hulda Bloom; also Mrs. Maurice Rothschild), Chicago; given to the Art Institute, 1941.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, Regenstein Hall, The Divine Art: Four Centuries of European Tapestry, Nov. 1, 2008–Jan. 4, 2009.
Literature
Published references
- Art Institute of Chicago, Bulletin of the Art Institue of Chicago, XXXV, no. 7 (Dec. 1941).
- Christa C. Mayer Thurman and Koenraad Brosens, "Flemish Tapestries in the Collection of The Art Institute of Chicago." In Flemish Tapestry in European and American Collections: Studies in Honour of Guy Delmarcel, ed. Koenraad Brosens, (Brepols Publishers, 2003), 171-184, fig. 8.
- 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) 178-182, cat. 22 (ill.).
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