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Triptych of the Virgin and Child with Saints
German · c. 1510
Provenance
Ownership history
- Julius Böhler, Munich, by 1913 [according to registrar’s records]; sold to Martin A. Ryerson (d. 1932), Chicago, 1913; bequeathed to the AIC, 1933.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1 - November 1, 1933, cat. 32, as Sebastian Schel.
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1 - November 1, 1934, cat. 20, as Sebastian Schel.
Literature
Published references
- “Loan Collections,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 7 (1914), p. 38.
- Rose Mary Fischkin, “Martin A. Ryerson Collection of Paintings and Sculpture, XIII to XVII Century, Loaned to The Art Institute of Chicago,” unpub. MS, 1926, Ryerson Library, The Art Institute of Chicago, pp. 129–31.
- J. Ringler, “Scheel (Schel, Schöll), Sebas-tian,” in Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, Leipzig, vol. 29, 1935, p. 597.
- Charles L. Kuhn, A Catalogue of German Paintings of the Middle Ages and Renaissance in American Collections, Cambridge, Mass., 1936, p. 76, no. 335, pl. 66.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection, 1961, p. 176.
- Gisela Mayr, “Sebastian Schel (um 1480–1554): Leben und Werk,” Ph.D. diss., Universität Innsbruck, 1967, pp. 152–54. Maxon 1970, pp. 253 (ill.), 286.
- Martha Wolff in Martha Wolff et al., Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2008, pp. 414-19, ill.
- Mary Mathews Gedo, “Camille Ascendant; Camille Redux,” Monet and His Muse: Camille Monet in the Artists Life, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2010. p. 158, fig. 10.4.
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