Francisco Bayeu y Subías, attributed to
Spanish, 1734-1795
(after Corrado Giaquinto, Italian, 1693/99-1765)

Old Testament Figures in Paradise, 1751-1760

Oil on canvas
16 1/8 x 39 1/2 in. (41 x 100.3 cm)
Gift of Mrs. Everett L. Millard and Mrs. John H. Harmon in memory of their mother, Mrs. Charles T. Boynton, 1941.830

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Decatur, Ill., Art Center, "Masterpieces of the Old and New World," 1948, cat. 9.

New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, "A Taste for Angels: Neapolitan Painting in North America, 1650–1750," 1987, cat. 45; traveled to Sarasota, Fla., John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, and Kansas City, Mo., Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.

Ownership History

Probably Charles Boynton (died 1923), Highland Park, IL; probably his widow Anna Bell Boynton (died 1938); Elizabeth Boynton Millard and her sister, Edith Boynton Harmon, by 1941; given to the Art Institute, 1941.