Treasures of the Sea

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Painting and Sculpture of Europe

c. 1870/75

Hans Makart (Austrian, 1840–1884)

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

Artist: Hans Makart
Title: Treasures of the Sea
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.: 1865–1880
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 40.3 × 105.7 cm (15 7/8 × 41 5/8 in.); Framed: 82.9 × 148.6 cm (32 5/8 × 58 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: A. A. Munger Collection
Reference Number: 1901.440
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Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Works of Old Dutch Masters and Other Pictures (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1890), p. 47, no. 114.
Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Works of Old Dutch Masters and Other Pictures (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1892), p. 44, no. 74.
Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture, and Other Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1894), p. 60, no. 94
Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, 1901), p. 168, no. 168.
Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, 1904), p. 174, no. 168.
Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Sculpture, Paintings and Other Objects (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1907), p. 186, no. 168.
Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Sculpture, Paintings and Other Objects (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1910), p. 175, no. 168.
Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture and Other Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1913), p. 118, no. 168.
Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture and Other Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1914), p. 123, no. 168.
Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture and Architecture (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1917), p. 123, no. 168.
Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, Paintings, and Drawings (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1920), p. 27, no. 168.
Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture and Paintings (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1922), p. 27, no. 168.
Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, and Paintings (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1923), p. 27, no. 168.
Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1925), p. 144, no. 168.
Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1932), p. 162.
Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 266.
Gerbert Frodl, Hans Makart: Monographie und Werkverzeichnis (Salzburg: Residenz Verlag, 1974), p. 441, cat. 639 (ill.).
Gerbert Frodl, “L’ ‘Abundantia’ de Hans Makart,” La Revue du Louvre 25, 1 (1975), pp. 382, 383 n. 27.

Art Institute of Chicago, Art at the Time of the Centennial, June 19–August 8, 1976, no cat.
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago’s Dream: A World’s Treasure, November 1, 1993–January 9, 1994, no cat. no.

Albert Allison Munger (died 1898), Chicago, by 1890 when it was lent to the AIC [see Chicago 1890]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1901.

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