
Art Institute of Chicago
Venetian scene, San Trovato
Gonzalo Bilbao y Martinez · c. 1886
Provenance
Ownership history
- Acquired at the World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Spanish section, group 140, no. 45b and no. 61, by Alastair I. Valentine, Chicago, 1893 [according to the catalogue of Valentine’s sale cited below, which mentions the agency of the Commissioner General of Spain in the purchase]; sold Grant’s Art Galleries, Chicago, February 26, 1924, no. 49, to Harding [annotated sale catalogue in Ryerson Library, copy in curatorial file]; George F. Harding, Jr. (died 1939), Chicago; bequeathed to the George F. Harding Museum, Chicago, 1939; transferred to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1982; accessioned in 1983.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Chicago, World’s Columbian Exposition, Spanish exhibition, 1893.
Literature
Published references
- Moses P. Handy, chief ed., World’s Columbian Exposition Official Catalogue (Chicago: W. B. Conkey Company, 1893), p. 179, no. 45b.
- Department of Fine Arts, ed., World’s Columbian Exposition Department of Fine Arts Revised Catalogue with Index of Exhibitors, Lists of Judges, Awards, etc. (Chicago: W. B. Conkey Company, 1893), pp. 21, 437, no. 61.
- Relación de los expositores españoles premiados en la Exposición universal de Chicago de 1893, publicada por la Comisión general de España (Madrid: Imprenta de Ricardo Rojas, 1894), p. 364, no. 760, cat. no. 3.
- Mark-Allan Roglán Kelley, “La pintura española del siglo XIX en las colecciones públicas norteamericanas: Una primera aproximación,” Ph.D. diss., Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 2001, vol. 2, no. 37.
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