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Venus and Cupid at the Forge of Vulcan
Johann Michael Rottmayr · c. 1695
Provenance
Ownership history
- Unknown Illinois banker; given by banker to Jacob S. Sherman, Chicago, during the 1930s as collateral for a loan that was never repaid [according to Robert Parker Sherman, son of Jacob S. Sherman, telephone conversation with Martha Wolff, 23 July 2003, transcribed in curatorial file]; bequeathed by Jacob S. Sherman (died 1961) to the Art Institute, 1961.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- University of Chicago, David and Alfred Smart Gallery, "German and Austrian Painting of the Eighteenth Century," 20 April–11 June 1978, no. 26.
Literature
Published references
- Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 405A.
- Edward A. Maser, "Five Early Paintings by Johann Michael Rottmayr," Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 2 (1967), pp. 19, 22–31, pl. 3.
- Edward A. Maser, "Fünf frühe Gemälde des Johann Rottmayr," Alte und Moderne Kunst 24 (1979), pp. 1–4, ill. no. 1.
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