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Virgin and Child Adored by Saint Francis

Francesco Albani · c. 1606

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What the record supports

"Virgin and Child Adored by Saint Francis," an oil on copper painting by Francesco Albani, dates to approximately 1606. Measuring 32.2 × 25.7 cm, the work is classified as "oil on copper" and is part of the Painting and Sculpture of Europe department, representing Italian culture. The Art Institute of Chicago acquired it through the Cyrus Hall McCormick Fund.

Francesco Albani (1578–1660) was a Baroque painter. While the catalogue lists several works by Albani or related to him in comparable holdings, including "The Rest on the Flight into Egypt" and "Goddess Inciting a Warrior" at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, specific details regarding their mediums or dimensions are not provided in this dataset.

The provenance indicates the painting likely belonged to Prince Victor Amadeus I of Savoy-Carignano, being sold in Paris in 1742 alongside another Albani work. It later passed through Julius H. Weitzner, New York, before its acquisition by the Art Institute in 1962. No exhibition history is available in the provided data.

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Provenance

Ownership history

Probably Prince Victor Amadeus I of Savoy-Carignano (died 1741); sold de Poilly, Paris, July 30, 1742, pp. 10–11 ["Deux petits Tableaux, l’un sur cuivre, l’autre sur bois, de onze pouces de haut, sur neuf pouces de large, represantans l’un une Vierge avec son Enfant & un Saint François, & l’autre une Assomption de la Vierge, de l’Albane" (two small paintings, one on copper, the other on wood, 12 3/8 x 10 1/8 in. (1 pouce = 1 1/8 inches) representing the one a Virgin and Child with Saint Francis and the other an Assumption of the Virgin), sold together for 2,050 fr. according to Charles Blanc and Henri Delaborde. Histoire des peintres de toutes les écoles. École Bolognese, Paris, 1877, p. 8]. Julius H. Weitzner, New York; sold by Weitzner to the Art Institute, 1962.

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Literature

Published references

"Accessions of American and Canadian Museums October - December 1963," The Art Quarterly 27 (1964), p. 109, fig. 1.
Calendar of The Art Institute of Chicago 59 (March,1965), n. p. (ill.)
John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (London,1970), p. 277, ill. p. 259.
Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Mass.,1972), pp. 3, 341, 398, 571.
Daniele Benati, "Albani, Francesco" in Allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon (1983), p. 766.
Catherine R. Puglisi, Francesco Albani (New Haven and London, 1999), p. 109, cat. no. 29, pl. 50.

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