Venetian scene, San Trovato

Painting and Sculpture of Europe

c. 1886

Gonzalo Bilbao y Martinez (Spanish, 1860–1938)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Gonzalo Bilbao y Martinez
Title: Venetian scene, San Trovato
Place: Venice (Place depicted:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1801–1900
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 28.6 × 41.7 cm (11 1/4 × 16 7/16 in.); Framed: 58.5 × 69.9 × 7.7 cm (23 × 27 1/2 × 3 in.)
Credit Line: George F. Harding Collection
Reference Number: 1983.385

Moses P. Handy, chief ed., World’s Columbian Exposition Official Catalogue (Chicago: W. B. Conkey Company, 1893), p. 179, no. 45b.
Department of Fine Arts, ed., World’s Columbian Exposition Department of Fine Arts Revised Catalogue with Index of Exhibitors, Lists of Judges, Awards, etc. (Chicago: W. B. Conkey Company, 1893), pp. 21, 437, no. 61.
Relación de los expositores españoles premiados en la Exposición universal de Chicago de 1893, publicada por la Comisión general de España (Madrid: Imprenta de Ricardo Rojas, 1894), p. 364, no. 760, cat. no. 3.
Mark-Allan Roglán Kelley, “La pintura española del siglo XIX en las colecciones públicas norteamericanas: Una primera aproximación,” Ph.D. diss., Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 2001, vol. 2, no. 37.

Chicago, World’s Columbian Exposition, Spanish exhibition, 1893.

Acquired at the World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Spanish section, group 140, no. 45b and no. 61, by Alastair I. Valentine, Chicago, 1893 [according to the catalogue of Valentine’s sale cited below, which mentions the agency of the Commissioner General of Spain in the purchase]; sold Grant’s Art Galleries, Chicago, February 26, 1924, no. 49, to Harding [annotated sale catalogue in Ryerson Library, copy in curatorial file]; George F. Harding, Jr. (died 1939), Chicago; bequeathed to the George F. Harding Museum, Chicago, 1939; transferred to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1982; accessioned in 1983.

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