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Triptych of the Virgin and Child with Scenes from the Life of Christ

Venetian · c. 1320

Provenance

Ownership history

Julius Böhler, Munich; sold by Böhler to Franz Haniel in 1918 [according to letter of May 22, 2000 from Joachim Temme of Herbert M. Ritter, Kunsthandel, Munich, to Larry Feinberg in curatorial file.]; Franz Haniel, Munich (died 1965); hiers of Franz Haniel; offered for sale through his brother-in-law, Herbert M. Ritter, Munich, at Christie's, London, July 1, 1966, no. 49 (ill.). [according to letter from Joachim Temme of Herbert M. Ritter, cited above]; bought in and offered for sale again at Christie's, London, November 24, 1967, no. 72 (ill.); sold probably to Julius Weitzner, London. [implied by a letter of May 13, 1968, from Weitzner to John Maxon, in curatorial files.]; sold by Weitzner to the Art Institute, 1968.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Chicago, AIC, The Art of the Edge: European Frames 1300-1900, October 17 - December 14, 1986, no. 1.

Literature

August L. Mayer, “Die Sammlung F.H. in München,” Pantheon 5 (1930): 263, ill.
Edward B. Garrison. Italian Romanesque Panel Painting, Florence, 1949, no. 302, ill.
Dorothy C. Shorr. The Christ Child in Devotional Images in Italy during the XIV Century, New York, 1954, p. 48, ill.
Rodolfo Pallucchini. La Pittura Veneziana del Trecento, Venice, 1964, pp. 70-71, fig. 238.
Art Prices Current, vol. 43 (August - July 1967): p. A-182, #5139.
Apollo 83, no. 52 (1966): p. xx, ill,.
Burlington Magazine 58 (1966): p. xxxii, ill,
International Art Market 6, no. 7-8 (1966), p.,144,.
AIC Annual Report 1968-1969, pp. 14, 16, ill.
John Maxon. The Art Institute of Chicago, New York, 1970, pp. 250, 288.
Rudolf Heinemann. The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Castagnola, 1969, p. 348, no. 321.
Miklós Boskovits with Serena Padovani. The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection: Italian Painting, 1290-1470, London, 1990, p. 196, no. 4.

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