About This Artwork

Franz Xavier Karl Palko
Austrian, 1724-1767

St. John of Matha and St. Felix of Valois Ransoming Christian Slaves, c. 1745

Oil on canvas
37 1/16 x 18 1/2 in. (94.2 x 47 cm)
On back of the original canvas inscribed: Franz C. Palko
Bequest from the Estate of Bertha C. Loomis, 1966.550

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Sarasota, Florida, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Central Europe: 1600–1800, January 27–February 27, 1972, cat. 105.

David and Alfred Smart Gallery, The University of Chicago, German and Austrian Painting of the Eighteenth Century, April 20–June 11, 1978, cat. 23.

Salzburger Barockmuseum, Salzburg, Franz Karl Palko (1724–1767): Ölskizzen, Zeichnungen und Druckgraphik, June 10–August 27, 1989, cat. 2.

Publication History

Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report (1966–67), p. 27.

Edward A. Maser, “A Modello by Franz Xaver Karl Palko,” Pantheon 28, no. 2 (1970), pp. 118–120, 121 (color ill.), pp 123, 124.

Oldrich J. Blazicek “Böhmisch-mährische und ungarische Kunst,” in Die Kunst des 18. Jahrhunderts, ed. Harald Keller (Berlin: Propyläen Verlag, 1971), pp. 259-260, cat. 154 (ill.).

Pavel Preiss, “Franz Karl Palko als Zeichner,” Bulletin du Musée Hongrois des Beaux-Arts 45 (1975), p. 71.

Bruno Bushart, “Der lyrische Maulbertsch,” in Imagination und Imago: Festschrift Kurt Rossacher: Zum 65. Geburtstag von Kurt Rossacher und zum Zehnjähre Bestandjubiläum des Salzburger Barockmuseums, ed. Leopold Netopil and Franz Wagner (Salzburg, 1983), pp. 29-30.

Jane Turner, ed., The Dictionary of Art vol. 23 (New York, 1996), p. 855.

Pavel Preiss, Frantisek Karel Palko: Zivot a dilo malire sklonku stredoevropskeho baroka a jeho bratra Frantiska Antonina Palka (Prague: Narodni Galerie Sbirka Stareho Umeni), 1999), pp. 62 (color ill.), 281 (cat. O-12).

Ownership History

Probably Edwin Cooley Loomis (died 1925), Hyde Park, Illinois; his widow Bertha C. Loomis (1871–1966), Winnetka, Illinois; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1966.