Venus and Cupid by Alessandro Turchi
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Venus and Cupid

Alessandro Turchi · c. 1630

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Private collection, Florence [unsubstantiated record in curatorial file]; M. and C. Sestieri, Rome, by 1964; sold to Art Institute, 1964.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • San Francisco, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Man: Glory, Jest, and Riddle, a Survey of the Human Form through the Ages, November 10, 1964 - January 3, 1965, no. 122.

Literature

Published references

  • The Art Institute of Chicago. Annual Report, 1963–4, (Chicago, 1964) p. 19.
  • John Maxon, “Some Recent Acquisitions,” Apollo 84 (1966), p. 221 ill.
  • John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (London and New York, 1970), pp. 259, 287 ill.
  • Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972), pp. 206, 476, 571.
  • Rodolfo Pallucchini, La pittura veneziana del seicento (Milan, 1981), vol. 1, p. 119.

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