St. John of Matha and St. Felix of Valois Ransoming Christian Slaves

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Painting and Sculpture of Europe

c. 1745

Franz Xavier Karl Palko
Austrian, 1724-1767

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Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Franz Xavier Karl Palko
Title: St. John of Matha and St. Felix of Valois Ransoming Christian Slaves
Place: Austria (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.: 1740–1750
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: On back of the original canvas inscribed: Franz C. Palko
Dimensions: 94.2 × 47 cm (37 1/16 × 18 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest from the Estate of Bertha C. Loomis
Reference Number: 1966.550
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Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report (1966–67), p. 27.
Edward A. Maser, “A Modello by Franz Xaver Karl Palko,” Pantheon 28, no. 2 (1970), pp. 118–120, 121 (color ill.), pp 123, 124.
Oldrich J. Blazicek “Böhmisch-mährische und ungarische Kunst,” in Die Kunst des 18. Jahrhunderts, ed. Harald Keller (Berlin: Propyläen Verlag, 1971), pp. 259-260, cat. 154 (ill.).
Pavel Preiss, “Franz Karl Palko als Zeichner,” Bulletin du Musée Hongrois des Beaux-Arts 45 (1975), p. 71.
Bruno Bushart, “Der lyrische Maulbertsch,” in Imagination und Imago: Festschrift Kurt Rossacher: Zum 65. Geburtstag von Kurt Rossacher und zum Zehnjähre Bestandjubiläum des Salzburger Barockmuseums, ed. Leopold Netopil and Franz Wagner (Salzburg, 1983), pp. 29-30.
Jane Turner, ed., The Dictionary of Art vol. 23 (New York, 1996), p. 855.
Pavel Preiss, Frantisek Karel Palko: Zivot a dilo malire sklonku stredoevropskeho baroka a jeho bratra Frantiska Antonina Palka (Prague: Narodni Galerie Sbirka Stareho Umeni), 1999), pp. 62 (color ill.), 281 (cat. O-12).

Sarasota, Florida, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Central Europe: 1600–1800, January 27–February 27, 1972, cat. 105.
David and Alfred Smart Gallery, The University of Chicago, German and Austrian Painting of the Eighteenth Century, April 20–June 11, 1978, cat. 23.
Salzburger Barockmuseum, Salzburg, Franz Karl Palko (1724–1767): Ölskizzen, Zeichnungen und Druckgraphik, June 10–August 27, 1989, cat. 2.

Probably Edwin Cooley Loomis (died 1925), Hyde Park, Illinois; his widow Bertha C. Loomis (1871–1966), Winnetka, Illinois; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1966.

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