About This Artwork

French

Architectural Landscape with Belisarius Receiving Alms, probably after 1760

Oil on canvas
31 15/16 x 48 15/16 in. (81.1 x 124.3 cm)
Bequest from the Estate of Agnes W. Stern, 1967.587

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report 1967-1968 (Chicago, 1968), p. 20.

Susan Wise and Malcolm Warner, French and British Paintings from 1600 to 1800 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1996), pp. 66, 67 (ill.).

Ownership History

J. Leger & Son, London, by 1930 [acc. to Witt archive]. Vicars Brothers’ Galleries, London, by 1948 [according to mount of photo in Witt Library, London]. W. Russell Button Galleries, Chicago, by 1951 [Antiques 60, no. 4 (October 1951)]. Agnes W. Stern (died 1967), Chicago; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1967.