About This Artwork
Monogrammist PG
Germany, active c. 1525–50
The Dream of Paris1536
Oil on panel
19 5/16 x 12 7/8 in. (49.1 x 32.8 cm)
Painted surface: 19 1/16 x 12 5/8 in. (48.4 x 32 cm)
Inscribed: PARIS / TRAM (on paper attached to central tree trunk),1 O.W. / 1536 / PG (or GP) in ligature (on central tree trunk)
Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection, 1940.935
Medieval to Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Gallery 207a
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. 51, as Georg Pentz [sic].
Art Institute of Chicago, Loan Exhibition of Old Masters, 1928–29 (no cat.).
Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1934, no. 14, as attributed to Matthias Gerung.
Publication History
“Early German Exhibition at Kleinberger’s,” Art News 27, 6 (1928), p. 5.
Frank Jewett Mather, Jr., “An Exhibition of German Primi-tives,” Arts 14 (1928), pp. 311–12.
Frank E. Washburn Freund, “Ausstellung altdeutscher Malerei in den F. Kleinberger Galleries zu New York,” Belvedere 8 (1929), p. 285.
Hertha Wescher-Kauert, “Zu den malerischen Anfängen des Matthias Gerung,” Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst 63 (1929–30), pp. 150–53 (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection, 1932, p. 193, no. 1104.28.
Charles L. Kuhn, A Catalogue of German Paintings of the Middle Ages and Renaissance in American Collections, Cambridge, Mass., 1936, p. 57, no. 215.
Daniel Catton Rich, ed., Catalogue of the Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection of Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings, Chicago, 1938, pp. 43–44, no. 40, pl. 29.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection, 1961, p. 177.
Mikhail Iakovlevich Libman, Zhivopis i risunok Ger-manii i Avstrii XV–XIX vekov, exh. cat., Moscow, [Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts], 1963, p. 28, under no. 602.
[Kurt Löcher], “Staatsgalerie Stuttgart: Neuerwerbungen 1967,” Jahrbuch der staatlichen Kunstsummlungen in Baden-Württemberg 5 (1968), p. 202.
John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago, London, 1970, pp. 254 (ill.), 282.
Dieter Koepplin and Tilman Falk, Lukas Cranach: Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Druckgraphik, vol. 2, exh. cat., Kunstmuseum Basel, 1976, p. 532, under no. 381.
Inge El-Himoud-Sperlich, “Das Urteil des Paris: Studien zur Bildtradi-tion des Themas im 16. Jahrhundert,” Ph.D. diss., Ludwig Max-milians Universität, Munich, 1977, p. 165.
Olga V. Postnikova, “Kartina Mattiasa Gerunga ‘Alle-goria liobvi’ iz sobrania GMII imeni A. S. Puszkina,” Soobshche-nia Gosudarstvennogo muzeia izobrazitelnykh iskusstv imeni A. S. Puszkina 9 (1992), p. 106.
Anja-Franziska Eichler, Mathis Gerung (um 1500–1570): Die Gemälde, Frankfurt, 1993, pp. 138, 141–51, 182–83, no. 11, fig. 79.
Fritz Grosse, “Thronbaldachine bei Ottheinrich von der Pfalz,” in Pfalzgraf Ottheinrich: Politik, Kunst und Wissenschaft im 16. Jahrhundert, Regensburg, 2002, pp. 210, 224–25, 285 (ill.).
Martha Wolff in Martha Wolff et al., Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2008, pp. 404-7, ill.
Ownership History
Dr. Reuling, Baltimore, 1902 [according to the catalogue of the Stillwell sale]. Dr. John E. Stillwell, New York, by 1927; sold, American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, New York, Dec. 1–3, 1927, no. 454, as Georg Pentz [sic], to Kleinberger for $4,750 [according to Charles Worcester’s annotation on the back of a photo in the curatorial file]. Kleinberger, New York and Paris, 1927–Oct. 1928; sold to Charles H. Worcester, Chicago, 1928 [invoice dated Oct. 13, 1928, Art Institute Archives; copy in curatorial file]; on loan to the AIC from 1928; given to the AIC, 1940.