About This Artwork

Bartholomäus Bruyn the Younger
German, 1524/30-1607/10

Portrait of a Woman with a Prayer Book, 1560/70

Oil on panel
18 1/4 x 13 1/8 in. (46.6 x 33.3 cm)
Painted surface: 17 3/16 x 12 13/16 in. (45.3 x 32.5 cm)
Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection, 1940.934

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

New York, Kleinberger, Loan Exhibition of German Primitives for the Benefit of the American Red Cross, 1928, no. 54.

Art Institute of Chicago, Loan Exhibition of Old Masters, 1928–29 (no cat.).

Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1933, no. 7.

Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1934, no. 7.

Appleton, Wisc., Worcester Art Center, Lawrence University, 1950 (no cat.).

Publication History

Eduard Firmenich-Richartz, Bartholomaeus Bruyn und seine Schule, Leipzig, 1891, p. 147.

Frank E. Washburn Freund, “Ausstellung altdeutscher Malerei in den F. Kleinberger Galleries zu New York,” Belvedere 8 (1929), p. 285.

The Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection, 1932, p. 191, no. 974.28.

“The Rearrangement of the Painting Gal-leries,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 27 (1933), pp. 112–13 (ill.).

Daniel Catton Rich, “German Art in Chicago,” American-German Review 1, 4 (1935), pp. 2 (ill.), 38.

Charles L. Kuhn, A Catalogue of German Paintings of the Middle Ages and Renaissance in American Collections, Cambridge, Mass., 1936, p. 29, no. 43.

Daniel Catton Rich, ed., Catalogue of the Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection of Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings, Chicago, 1938, p. 45, no. 42, pl. 30.

The Art Institute of Chicago, A Brief Illustrated Guide to the Collections, 1941, p. 28.

Frederick A. Sweet, “Wom-an with Prayer Book by Bartel Bruyn the Younger,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 35 (1941), p. 34 (cover ill.).

The Art Institute of Chicago, An Illustrated Guide to the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, 1945, p. 30.

The Art Institute of Chicago, An Illustrated Guide to the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, 1948, p. 27.

“To Dedicate Art at New Building; Old Master Collection Honors Art Patrons,” Lawrentian (Appleton, Wisc.), May 26, 1950, p. 4.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpieces in The Art Institute of Chicago, 1952
1952, n.pag. (ill.).

The Art Institute of Chicago, An Illustrated Guide to the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago,1956, p. 27.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection, 1961, pp. 62, 149 (ill.).

Larry Silver, “Early Northern European Paintings,” Bulletin (Saint Louis Art Museum), n.s., 16, no. 3 (1982), p. 40, fig. 17.

Annekatrein Löw, Bartholomäus Bruyn: Die Sammlung im Städtischen Museum Wesel, Wesel, 2002, pp. 126, 142, 180, fig. 60.

Martha Wolff in Martha Wolff et al., Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2008, pp. 338-40, ill.

Ownership History

Galerie Sedelmeyer, Paris, by 1891 [according to Firmenich-Richartz 1891]. Chester H. Johnson Galleries, Chicago, by 1927 [Invoice dated Nov. 5, 1927, copy in curatorial file.]; sold to Charles H. Worcester, Chicago, Nov. 5, 1927; on loan to the AIC intermittently from 1928; given to the AIC, 1940.