Venus and Mars with Cupid and the Three Graces in a Landscape

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• Daniel Catton Rich, “Chicago Given Worcester Art,” Art News 28, 22 (1930), p. 9.
• Daniel Catton Rich, “The Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Worcester Gift,” Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 24 (1930), p. 30.
• Lionello Venturi, Pitture italiane in America (Milan, 1931), pl. CCCCIX.
• Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago, 1932), pp. 4, 173, ill.
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Daniel Catton Rich, “Die Ausstellung ‘Fünf Jahrhunderte der Frühmalerei’ in Chicago,” Pantheon 12 (1933), p. 381.
• Art Institute of Chicago, A Brief Illustrated Guide to the Collections (Chicago, 1935), p. 21, detail ill.
• Bernard Berenson, Pitture italiane del Rinascimento (Milan, 1936), p. 480.
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• Erich von der Bercken, “Tintoretto, Jacopo,” in Thieme-Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart , vol. 33 (Leipzig, 1939), p. 193.
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• William E. Suida, The Samuel H. Kress Collection at the University of Arizona (Tucson, 1957), n. p., under no. 16.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 450.
• Frederick A. Sweet, “Great Chicago Collectors,” Apollo 84 (1966), p. 203.
• Carlo Bernari and Pierluigi De Vecchi, L’opera completa del Tintoretto, Classici dell’arte 36 (Milan, 1970), p. 134, 136, no. E13, ill.
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• Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–November 1, 1933, no. 137, as by Jacopo Tintoretto.
• Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–November 1, 1934, no. 55, as by Jacopo Tintoretto.
• New York, Durlacher Brothers, A Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Jacopo Robusti, il Tintoretto, 1519–1594, February 20–March 18, 1939, no. 9, as by Jacopo Tintoretto.
• New York, M. Knoedler and Co., Classics of the Nude, April 10–29, 1939, no. 9, as by Jacopo Tintoretto.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpiece of the Month, May 1941, no cat., as by Jacopo Tintoretto.
• Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, Opening Exhibition, April 8–June 3, 1951, no cat. no., as by Jacopo Tintoretto.
• Chattanooga Art Association, Inc., Tennessee, Opening Exhibition of Hunter Gallery of Art, 1952, no cat.
• Urbana, University of Illinois, Midwest Museum Loan Exhibition, 1955, no cat.
• Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, England’s World of 1607, 1957, no cat.
• Art Institute of Chicago, New Light on Old Masters: Early Italian Painting in the Art Institute of Chicago, May 29–July 31, 1993, no cat.

Don Gaspar Méndez de Haro y Guzmán, Marqués del Carpio y Helice and viceroy of Naples (died 1687), by 1682/3 [his monogram, DGH / 4,67 / 1406, was painted on the reverse of the old lining canvas; the painting is no. 465 [sic] in the 1682/83 inventory of the Carpio collection, Rome, as “Un quadro che rappresenta Venere sopra un Letto, che vede Amore che ha gl’ occhi bendati, e da Lontano Le tre Gratie nude di mano di Domenicao Tintoretto”, and no. 1406 in the 1687 inventory of the same collection, taken in Naples, see Burke and Cherry 1997]; probably by descent to the Alba collection through Don Gaspar’s daughter, Doña Catalina, who in 1688 married the tenth Duke of Alba [the painting is not included in the inventories of the Alba Collection, which are incomplete; for these inventories see A. M. de Barcia, Catálogo de la colección…del…Duque de Berwick y de Alba (Madrid, 1911)]. Price collection, London, nineteenth or early twentieth century, as Jacopo Tintoretto [reference appears on the mount of a photograph of the painting in the Witt Library in London; this location and the following does not necessarily precede its presence in the H. M. Clark collection]. Dowdeswell and Dowdeswell, London, as Jacopo Tintoretto [according to the Witt Library mount cited above]. H. M. Clark, London, as Jacopo Tintoretto [according to registrar’s records]. D. Heinemann, Munich; sold by Heinemann to Charles H. Worcester, 1928, as Jacopo Tintoretto [according to registrar’s records]; Charles H. Worcester, Chicago, 1928–29; on loan to the Art Institute from 1928; given to the Art Institute, 1929.