Venetian scene, San Trovato

Provenance

Acquired at the World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Spanish section, group 140, no. 45b and no. 61, by Alastair I. Valentine, Chicago, 1893 [according to the catalogue of Valentine’s sale cited below, which mentions the agency of the Commissioner General of Spain in the purchase]; sold Grant’s Art Galleries, Chicago, February 26, 1924, no. 49, to Harding [annotated sale catalogue in Ryerson Library, copy in curatorial file]; George F. Harding, Jr. (died 1939), Chicago; bequeathed to the George F. Harding Museum, Chicago, 1939; transferred to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1982; accessioned in 1983.

Venetian scene, San Trovato

Gonzalo Bilbao y Martinez

c. 1886

Accession Number

100355

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

28.6 × 41.7 cm (11 1/4 × 16 7/16 in.); Framed: 58.5 × 69.9 × 7.7 cm (23 × 27 1/2 × 3 in.)

Classification

painting

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

George F. Harding Collection