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Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

The Art Institute of Chicago, European Portraits, 1600–1900, in The Art Institute of Chicago, 1978, no. 4.

Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, La Peinture française du XVIIe siècle dans les collections américaines, Janary 29–April 26,1982, no. 10, cat. by Pierre Rosenberg; traveled to New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 26–August 22, 1982; Chicago, Art Institute, September 18–November 28, 1982.

Montpellier, Musée Fabre, Sébastien Bourdon, 1616–1671: Retrospective, 2000, no. 222.

Publication History

“La Chronique des arts: Principales Acquisitions des musées en 1975,” Gazette des Beaux-Arts 6th ser., 89 (1977), suppl. to no. 1298, p. 49, no. 194 (ill.).

Dominique Vasseur, “Portrait of a Man by Sébastien Bourdon,” Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin 71, 3 (1977), pp. 2–5 (ill. and cover ill.).

J. Patrice Marandel in Frédéric Bazille and Early Impressionism, exh. cat., The Art Institute of Chicago, 1978, p. 12 (ill.).

The Art Institute of Chicago 100 Masterpieces, Chicago 1978, p. 62, no. 24 (ill.).

Jean Pierre Cuzin, "Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: New York, French Seventeenth-Century Paintings from American Collections,” Burlington Magazine 124 (1982), pp. 529, 530.

J. V. Hantz, “La Peinture française du XVIIe siècle dans les collections américaines,” L’Amateur d’art 680 (1982), p. 20.

Claude Lesné, “La Peinture française du XVIIe siècle dans les collections américaines,” Le Petit Journal des grandes exposition 116 (1982), no p. (ill.).

Ekkehard Mai, “La Peinnture française du XVII siécle dans les collections américaines,” Pantheon 40 (1982), p. 153.

Pierre Rosenberg, “A Golden Century in French Painting,” Connaissance des arts 25 (February, 1982), p. 74.

Christopher Wright, The French Painters of the Seventeenth Century, London, 1985, p. 149.

Christopher Wright, The World’s Master Paintings from the Early Renaissance to the Present Day: A Comprehensive Listing of Works by 1,300 Painters and a Complete Guide to Their Locations Worldwide, 1991, vol. 1, p. 232, vol. 2, pp. 61, 501.

Susan Wise in 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. 21–24.

Ownership History

Private collection, England [letter of 13 January 1981 from Andrew S. Ciechanowiecki of Heim Gallery; however the Heim commission book for 1970-85 at the J. Paul Getty Research Center, Los Angeles, states that the painting came from the Etablissement Rustique in Vaduz, Liechtenstein in 1975]. Heim Gallery, London, 1975; sold by Heim to the Art Institute, 1975.