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Venus and Adonis (?) with the Duck Hunt

Jacques Geubels, I · c. 1600

Provenance

Ownership history

Charles M. Ffoulke (died 1909), Washington, D.C., from 1891 [Ffoulke 1913, 72]; sold to the Antiquarian Society of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1896; given to the Art Institute, 1896.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Art Institute of Chicago, Antiquarian Society: Collection of Tapestries, Collection of Charles M. Ffoulke, Jan. 1–Jan. 15, 1896. [probably]
University of Chicago, Quadrangle Club, 1956-winter 1972.
Art Institute of Chicago, Regenstein Hall, The Divine Art: Four Centuries of European Tapestry, Nov. 1, 2008–Jan. 4, 2009.

Literature

Charles M. Ffoulke, The Ffoulke Collection of Tapestries (New York: Frederic Fairchild Sherman, 1913), 71–72 (ill.).
Charles M. Ffoulke, Monograph on Two Flemish Tapsties belonging to The Aniquarians, of Chicago (undated, typed manuscript), 1–14 [copy in curatorial object file].
George Leland Hunter, "Tapestries in the Chicago Art Institute," The House Beautiful 35, no. 4 (Mar. 1914): 119, fig. 2 (ill.).
Helen Churchill Hungerford Candee, The Tapestry Book (Tudor Publishing Co., 1935), 78-79 (ill.).
John W. Keefe, The Antiquarian Society of the Art Institute of Chicago: The First One Hundred Years, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1977), 184-85, cat. 241 (ill.).
Celia Hilliard, “‘Higher Things’: Remembering the Early Antiquarians,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 28, no. 2 (2002): 9, fig. 2 (ill., on view at opening of Hutchinson Wing, Jan. 1923).
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), 6, 114-122, cat. 14A (ill.).

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