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Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Il Settecento a Roma, March 19 - May 31, 1959, cat. 1451.

Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, European Portraits 1600-1900 in The Art Institute of Chicago, July 8 - September 11, 1978, cat. 11 (ill.).

Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, The Art of the Edge: European Frames 1300-1900, October 17 - December 14, 1986, cat. 25.

Publication History

[Giovanni Lodovico Bianconi], Elogio Storico del Cavaliere Anton Raffaele Mengs (Milan, 1780), n.p. (listed in catalogue under oils).

D. Giuseppe Niccola De Azara, Opere di Antonio Raffaello Mengs, primo pittore del Re Cattolico Carlo III, ed. by Carlo Fea ( Roma, 1787), pp. XXIV, LXVII.

Catalogue dei quadri ed altri oggetti della Galleria Rinuccini per comodo dei signori che favoriscono visitaria (Florence, 1845), p. 17, no. 16.

AntonHaidacher, Geschichte der Päpste in Bildern, mit einem geschichtlichen Überblick von Josef Wodka. Eine Dokumentation zur Papstgeschichte von Ludwig Freiherr von Pastor (Zurich, 1965), p. 713, ill..

Ruth Davidson, "Museum Accessions," Antiques 96 (1969), p. 670 (ill.).

"Recent Accessions" Apollo 90, no. 89 (1969), p. 78, fig. 6.

J[oseph] J. R[ishel], Calendar of The Art Institute of Chicago 63 (Summer 1969), n. p., ill. on cover.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report 1968-1969 (Chicago, 1969), pp. 16, 17.

"La Chronique des arts," supplement to the Gazette des Beaux-Arts series 6, 75 (1970), p. 73, fig. 36.

Steffi Röttgen, "Two Portraits by Mengs in The Art Institute of Chicago," Museum Studies 5 (1970), pp. 65-72, fig. 1.

John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1970), pp. 64 (ill.), 284.

Susan Wise, “European Portraits 1600–1900,” Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 72, no. 4, July–August 1978, pp.16–17 (ill.).

European Portraits 1600–1900 in the Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat., Art Institute, Chicago, 1978, no. 11, ill.

Richard Brettell, The Art of the Edge, exh. cat. Art Institute, Chicago, 1986, no. 25.

Ownership History

Cardinal Francesco Saverio de Zelada (died 1801), Rome, until 1801. Probably Marchese Pierfrancesco Rinuccini (died circa 1852), Florence, by 1845 [see Rinuccini catalogue, 1845, p. 17, no. 16]. Antonio Baccelli, Rome, 1959 [lent to Rome 1959]. Marcello and Carlo Sestieri, Rome, 1959; sold to the Art Institute, 1969.