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Virgin and Child
Workshop of Adriaen Isenbrant · c. 1520
Provenance
Ownership history
- Steinmeyer & Fils, Paris, by 1911 [letter from Max J. Friedländer to Steinmeyer, July 20, 1911, in curatorial file]. V. G. Fischer Art Co., New York, and Washington, D.C., 1912; sold to Martin A. Ryerson (d. 1932), Chicago, 1912 [receipt dated Apr. 26, 1912, Art Institute Archives]; on loan to the Art Institute from 1912; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1933.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, Kleinberger, Loan Exhibition of Flemish Primitives, 1929, no. 66.
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1933, no. 41.
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1934, no. 120.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, New Light on Old Masters: Research on Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute, 26 June—14 September 2008, no cat.
Literature
Published references
- The Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture, and Other Objects in the Museum, 1913, p. 196, no. 2084.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture, and Other Objects in the Museum, 1914 , p. 207, no. 2084.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, Paintings, and Drawings, vol. 2, August 1920, p. 64.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, and Paintings, May 1922, p. 74.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection, 1925, p. 161, no. 2090.
- Rose Mary Fischkin, “Martin A. Ryerson Collection of Paintings and Sculpture, XIII to XVII Century, Loaned to The Art Institute of Chicago,” unpub. MS, 1926, Ryerson Library, The Art Institute of Chicago, p. 90, no. 2090.
- Max J. Friedländer, Die altniederländische Malerei, vol. 11, Leiden, 1933, p. 136, no. 182a; rev. English ed., Early Netherlandish Painting Brussels and Leiden, 1974, p. 88, no. 182a, pl. 135.
- Daniel Catton Rich, “Die Ausstellung ‘Fünf Jahrhunderte der Frühmalerei in Chicago,’” Pantheon 6 (1933), p. 376.
- Ninfa Valvo, “A Madonna and Child by Adriaen Isenbrant,” Pacific Art
- Review 1 (1941), pp. 6–13, fig. 2.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection, 1961, p. 224.
- John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago, London, 1970, pp. 252 (ill.), 283.
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