About This Artwork

Pietro della Vecchia
Italian, 1605-1678

The Adoration of the Magi, c. 1650

Oil on canvas
18 1/2 x 58 in. (47 x 147.3 cm)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Morris I. Kaplan, 1965.1177

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report, 1965-66, (Chicago, 1966), pp. 9 and 27.

Bernard Aikema, Pietro della Vecchia and the Heritage of the Renaissance in Venice (Florence, 1990), p. 123, under no. 46.

Ownership History

Julius H. Weitzner [label on reverse of stretcher]. Mr. and Mrs. Morris I. Kaplan by 1965; gift to the Art Institute, 1965.