Portrait of a Young Woman

European Painting and Sculpture

c. 1760

Alessandro Longhi
Italian, 1733-1813

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Artist: Alessandro Longhi
Title: Portrait of a Young Woman
Origin: Italy
Date: 1750–1770
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 57.8 x 44 cm (22 3/4 x 38 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Charles Deering McCormick, Brooks McCormick, and the Estate of Roger McCormick
Reference Number: 1962.959

John Maxon, “Three Baroque Portraits,” The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly 57, 1 (1963), pp. 6-7, no. 3, ill.
Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Mass., 1972), pp 108, 532.
Paolo Delorenzi, Alessandro Longhi, pittore et incisore del Settecento veneziano, Ph.D. Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia, 2011, pp. 156, under no. 23, 165-66, no. 34, fig. 15

Possibly Dino Barozzi, Venice [see label on reverse dated 1915]. Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey McCormick from at least 1946 [when it was on loan to the Art Institute, RofO 10415]; given to their sons Charles Deering McCormick, Brooks McCormick and Roger McCormick; given by them to the Art Institute 1962.

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