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Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Catalogus van de Tentoonstelling van Oude Kunst, 1929, cat. 151 (ill.), as De Keukenmeid.

Columbus, Ohio, Gallery of Fine Arts, Spanish Paintings, Textiles, Arms and Pottery, September-November 1936, no cat. (exhibition mentioned in Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Bulletin 7 (October 1936), pp. 2,3,6).

Hartford, Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum, The Painters of Still Life, January–February 1938, cat.

Toledo, Ohio, Museum of Art, Spanish Paintings, March-April, 1941, cat. 59 (ill.).

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Caravaggio and the Tenebrosi, April 8–May 30, 1954, cat. 23.

Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Pictures of Everyday Life: Genre Painting in Europe 1500-1900, October 14–December 12, 1954, cat. 27, pl. 27.

Denver, Colorado, The Denver Art Museum, Baroque Art, October 3–November 15, 1971, cat.

Edinburgh, National Gallery of Scotland, Velázquez in Seville, August 8–October 20, 1996, cat. 23 (ill.), as The Kitchen Maid.

Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, "The Spanish Still Life, From Zubaran to Picasso," December 3, 1999-April 19, 2000, cat. 17.

Seville, Fundacion Focus-Abengoa, Hospital de los Venerables, "From Herrera to Velazquez: Sevillian Painting at the Turn of the 17th-century", November 29, 2005-February 28, 2006; traveled to Museo de Belles Artes de Bilbao, Bilbao, March 20, 2006-May 28, 2006.

Boston, MA, Museum of Fine Arts, El Greco to Velázquez, April 20, 2008-July 27, 2008, cat. 52, traveled to Durham, NC, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, August 21, 2008-November 9, 2008, pp. 58-59, pp. 112-114, p. 119, p. 252, p. 268, p. 275.

Publication History

Karl Justi, Diego Velázquez and His Time (London, 1889), pp. 138, 160.

A. L. Mayer, “Das Original der ‘Küchenmagd’ von Velázquez,” Cicerone 19, no. 18 (1927), pp. 562 (ill.), 563.

Catalogue de la collection Goudstikker 33, no. 129.

Karl Justi, Diego Velázquez und sein Jahrhundert (Vienna, 1933), p. 143.

Catalogue of the Goudstikker Collection (Amsterdam, 1933?), no. 129.

A. L. Mayer, Velázquez: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Pictures and Drawings (London, 1936), no. 105, pl. 39.

Daniel Catton Rich, “An El Greco and a Velázquez,” Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin 31 (1937), pp. 2–5 (ill.).

E. Lafuente, Velazquez (London and New York, 1943), no. 3, pl. 3 (ill.).

E. du Gué Trapier, Velazquez, 1948, pp. 54–81.

“Fifteen New Acquisitions at Chicago,” Art News 35 (December 26, 1936), p. 9 (ill.).

M. S. Soria, “An Unknown Early Painting by Velázquez,” Burlington Magazine 91 (1949), pp. 124, 126 (ill.), 127, 128.

American Artist (December 1954), p. 38 (ill.).

P. de Pantorba, La Vida y la Obra del Velázquez (1955), p. 65, no. 5 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin 31 (1937), pp. 2–5.

Charles Sterling, La Nature Morte de l’Antiquite a Nos Jours (Paris, 1952), no. 62, pp. 67, 132.

Karl Justi, Velázquez y su Siglo (Madrid, 1953), p. 815, fig. 228.

Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1961), p. 460.

José López-Rey, Velázquez: A Catalogue Raisonné of His Oeuvre (London, 1963), p. 156, 99, pl. 24.

P. M. Bardi, L’Opera completa di Velázquez (Milan, 1969), cat. 5A (ill.).

John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (New York, 1970, pp. 257 (ill.), 287.

Jose Gudiol, Velázquez 1599/1660: Historia de su Vida: Catalogo de su Obra: Estudio de la Evolucion de su Tecnica (Barcelona, 1973), cat. 4, fig. 11.

Madlyn Millner Kahr, Velázquez: The Art of Painting (New York, 1976), p. 21.

I geni dell’arte Velázquez (Milan, 1976), p. 34 (ill.), no. 2.

John D. Morse, Old Master Paintings in North America (New York, 1979), p. 285.

Maurice Sérullaz, Velázquez (New York, 1981), p. 32, fig. 38.

Marianna Haraszti-Takás, Spanish Genre Painting in the Seventeenth Century (Budapest, 1983), nos. 213, 214 (ill.)

Charles Sterling, La nature morte de l'antiquité au XXe siècle (Paris, 1985), pp. 63 (ill.), 71-2.

Jonathan Brown, Velázquez: Painter and Courtier (New Haven and London, 1986), p. 21, pl. 26.

Barry Wind, Velazquez's Bodegones: A Study in Seventeenth-Century Spanish Genre Painting (Fairfax, VA, 1987), p. 147, fig. 8.

Rosemarie Mulcahy, Spanish Paintings in The National Gallery of Ireland (Dublin, 1988), pp. 79, 81.

Adrian Le Harivel, Rosemarie Mulcahy, and Homan Potterton, National Gallery of Ireland: The Beit Collection (Dublin, 1988), p. 52, under no. 16.

Antonio Domínguez Ortiz, Alfonso E. Pérez Sánchez, Julián Gállego, Velázquez (Madrid, Museo del Prado, 1990), under cat. 1, ill.

Odile Delenda, Velázquez: Peintre religieux (Geneva, 1993), pp. 32, 54 (pl. 5).

Yves Bottineau, Velázquez (Paris, 1998), fig. 35, p. 53.

Peter Cherry, Arte y Naturaleza: el Bodegón Español en el Siglo de Oro (Aranjuez, 1998), p. 62, pl. 26.

Gridley McKim-Smith, "La técnica Sevillana de Velázquez," in Velázquez y Sevilla, exh. cat. (Sevilla, Salas del Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, 1999), p. 119 (ill.).

Felix Scheffler, Das spanische Stilleben des 17. Jahrhunderts: Theorie, Genese und Entgaltung einer neuen Bildgattung (Frankfurt am Mein, 2000), p. 124, pl. 19.

Inge Fiedler, Zahira Véliz, and Frank Zuccari, “Saint John in the Wilderness: Observations on Technique, Style, and Authorship,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 31, 2 (2005), pp. 30-45, fig. 3.

Peter Cherry, "Velázquez," Burlington Magazine 149, 1246 (January 2007), pp. 50-52 (ill.).

Ownership History

Private collection, Zurich [this and the following information according to notes on Registrar's card; see also Lopez-Rey 1963]. Dr. L. von Buerkel, Munich. Bottenwieser, Berlin. Jacques Goudstikker, Amsterdam by at least 1929 [lent to Amsterdam, 1929]; sold to the Art Institute, 1935.