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Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist

Antonio da Correggio · c. 1515

Analyst brief

What the record supports

"Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist" is an oil on panel painting attributed to Antonio da Correggio, dated to approximately 1515. The artwork measures 64.2 × 50.2 cm and is held by the Painting and Sculpture of Europe department, acquired through the Clyde M. Carr Fund.

The painting's provenance traces back to Baron Nicholas Massias in Paris by 1815. It was sold in Paris in 1825, cataloged as by Bernardo Luini. Subsequent ownership includes an unidentified private collection in Germany, where it was reportedly acquired around World War II at an unstated public auction, and the Minari collection in Milan. Wildenstein, New York, sold the work to The Art Institute of Chicago in 1965.

The painting has been cited in numerous publications since 1815, including Landon's "Galerie de M. Massias" (1815) and several articles in "Art Quarterly," "Burlington Magazine," and "Art News" following its acquisition by The Art Institute of Chicago. It was included in a gallery space during "Bill Viola: A 25-Year Survey" at The Art Institute of Chicago from 1999 to 2000. No specific auction prices are recorded in the provided provenance for its sale to The Art Institute.

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Provenance

Ownership history

Baron Nicholas Massias, Paris, by 1815; sold Laneuville and Lacoste, Paris, December 13 or following, 1825 (originally scheduled for December 14, 1824), no. 27, as Bernardo Luini, for Fr 4,000 [according to Landon 1815, p. 17]. Private collection, Germany [statement from Wildenstein and correspondence of John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago Archives; Maxon recounted that the Milanese collector cited below bought the picture sometime around the beginning or end of World War II at an unidentified public auction in Germany as Italian, first quarter of the sixteenth century]. Minari collection, Milan [statement of Wildenstein (without reference to collector's name) and Maxon papers, The Art Institute of Chicago]. Wildenstein, New York; sold to the Art Institute, 1965.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

The Art Institute of Chicago, Bill Viola: A 25-Year Survey, October 16, 1999 – January 9, 2000, included in the gallery that held Viola’s The Greeting for the Chicago venue.

Literature

Published references

C.P. Landon, Galerie de M. Massias, ancien résident de France à Carlsruhe... (Paris, 1815), p. 17, pl. 6.
"Accessions of Canadian and American Museums, October-December 1965," Art Quarterly 29 (1966), p. 71, cover ill.
Myron Laskin, Jr., "A New Correggio for Chicago," Burlington Magazine 107, (1966), p. 190.
John Maxon, "Correggio's Virgin and Child with the Infant Saint John, " Art News 66, no. 2 (1966), pp. 31-32, 64-65 (color ill.).
"The Sensual Innocent," Time Magazine 87, no. 14 (1966), pp. 78-79 (color ill.).
John Maxon, "Some Recent Acquisitions," Apollo 84 (1966), p. 221, fig. 3.
"La Chronique des arts," Gazette des beaux arts ser. 6, 69 (1967), suppl. no. 1177, p. 69, no. 253 (ill.).
Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Central Italian and North Italian Schools, vol. I (London, 1968), p. 92.
John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (London, 1970), p. 93, no. 30 (ill.).
Alberto Bevilacqua and Arturo Carlo Quitavalle, L'opera completa del Correggio ( Milan, 1970), no. 30 (ill.).
D. A. Brown, "Correggio's Virgin and Child with the Infant St. John," The Art Instite of Chicago Museum Studies 7 (1972), pp. 7-33, fig. 1.
Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Mass., 1972), pp. 56, 3336, 571.

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