Virgin and Child Adored by Saint Francis

c. 1606

Francesco Albani (Italian, 1578-1660)

Status: On View, Gallery 209
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Francesco Albani
Title: Virgin and Child Adored by Saint Francis
Place: Italy (Artist's nationality:)
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.: 1600–1620
Medium: Oil on copper
Dimensions: 32.2 × 25.7 cm (12 5/8 × 10 1/4 in.); Framed: 42.6 × 35.3 × 6.4 cm (16 3/4 × 13 7/8 × 2 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Cyrus Hall McCormick Fund
Reference Number: 1962.823
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“Accessions of American and Canadian Museums October - December 1963,” The Art Quarterly 27 (1964), p. 109, fig. 1.
Calendar of The Art Institute of Chicago 59 (March,1965), n. p. (ill.)
John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (London,1970), p. 277, ill. p. 259.
Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Mass.,1972), pp. 3, 341, 398, 571.
Daniele Benati, “Albani, Francesco” in Allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon (1983), p. 766.
Catherine R. Puglisi, Francesco Albani (New Haven and London, 1999), p. 109, cat. no. 29, pl. 50.

Probably Prince Victor Amadeus I of Savoy-Carignano (died 1741); sold de Poilly, Paris, July 30, 1742, pp. 10–11 [“Deux petits Tableaux, l’un sur cuivre, l’autre sur bois, de onze pouces de haut, sur neuf pouces de large, represantans l’un une Vierge avec son Enfant & un Saint François, & l’autre une Assomption de la Vierge, de l’Albane” (two small paintings, one on copper, the other on wood, 12 3/8 x 10 1/8 in. (1 pouce = 1 1/8 inches) representing the one a Virgin and Child with Saint Francis and the other an Assumption of the Virgin), sold together for 2,050 fr. according to Charles Blanc and Henri Delaborde. Histoire des peintres de toutes les écoles. École Bolognese, Paris, 1877, p. 8]. Julius H. Weitzner, New York; sold by Weitzner to the Art Institute, 1962.

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