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Old Masters at the Art Institute of Chicago



the ART INSTITUTE of CHICAGO

ISSN O069-3235

ISBN O-3OO-II95I-8

2oo6 ? The Art Institute of Chicago. All rights reserved. No part of

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are ? The Art Institute of Chicago. Some images in this publication are

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for all reproductions. Pp. 25-31: figs. 2-3, V&A Images/Victoria and Albert

Museum; fig. 5, Hospices civils de Beaune; fig. 6, Muzeum Narodowe, Gdansk;

fig. 8, Princeton University Art Museum; fig. 9, National Gallery, London;

pp. 33-43: figs. 2, 6, 11, 14, R?union des mus?es nationaux/Art Resource,

NY; fig. 3, National Gallery, London; figs. 5, 7, Alinari/Art Resource, NY;

figs. 8-9, 12-13, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam; fig. 14,

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45-59: fig. 2, Vatican Museums; figs. 5, 12, 18, courtesy Nicholas Turner; fig.

9, R?union des mus?es nationaux/Art Resource, NY; fig. 16, Museum of Fine

Arts, Budapest; fig. 19, Istituto centrale per il catologo e la documentazione,

Rome; pp. 61-71: figs. 4-12, R?union des mus?es nationaux/Art Resource,

NY; pp. 73-87: fig. 8, R?union des mus?es nationaux/Art Resource, NY, fig.

13, Mus?e Antoine-L?cuyer, Saint-Quentin.

Front cover: p. 34, fig. 1 (detail).

Opposite: p. 54, fig. 12 (detail).

Back cover: p. 83, fig. 11 (detail).



Contents

4 Acknowledgments and Introduction

Larry J. Feinberg

6 A Brief History of the Old Masters

in the Art Institute of Chicago Larry J. Feinberg

24 "War in Heaven":

Saint Michael and the Devil

Bruce Boucher

3 2 Fra Bartolommeo 's Nativity:

A Rediscovered High Renaissance Masterpiece

Larry J. Feinberg

44 Much of Real Fascination:

New Discoveries among the Italian Baroque

Drawings in the Art Institute of Chicago

Nicholas Turner

60 Autumn and Winter;

Two Gobelins Tapestries after Charles Le Brun

Christa C. Mayer Thurman and Koenraad Brosens

72 "A Finesse of the Crayon ":

Eighteenth-Century French Portraits in Pastel

Suzanne Folds McCullagh

88 Notes



Acknowledgments

In this issue of Museum Studies our goal is to explore the

kind of works?Old Masters in various media?that the

Art Institute's founders initially sought to acquire in order

to distinguish and define the museum's collection. In the

case of drawings and tapestries, the following essays focus

on objects that have been in our holdings for some time and

about which we have interesting new information, thanks

to diligent research. Other articles concern relatively recent

acquisitions?a Renaissance painting, a late Gothic sculpture,

and eighteenth-century pastels, which were briefly discussed

in recent Museum Studies issues but now receive a more

extensive and comprehensive treatment.

This publication is the product of the research and skills

of a large number of museum staff members. First, I would

like to thank my authorial colleagues, who contributed the

very readable and scholarly essays: Bruce Boucher in the

Department of European Decorative Arts and Sculpture, and

Ancient Art; Suzanne Folds McCullagh in the Department of Prints and Drawings; Christa C. Mayer Thurman in

the Department of Textiles; and outside experts Koenraad

Brosens and Nicholas Turner. In many cases, these authors

were involved in acquiring the works on which they wrote.

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Crucial to the project's success was the deft editing of Gregory Nosan, in charge of Museum Studies for the

Publications Department, who shaped the issue along with

his colleague Sarah Guernsey, who coordinated its production with a sharp eye for color and costs. They were admirably assisted by Sarah Hoadley, who managed photography

rights and obtained essential comparative illustrations. Jeff Wonderland, of the museum's Department of Graphic Design,

Photographic, and Communication Services, was responsible

for the issue's beautiful design. In the same department, thanks

also go to Jennifer Anderson, Chris Gallagher, Robert Lifson, and Caroline Nutley. Brandon K. Ruud, Elizabeth Stepina, and Virginia Voedisch also offered invaluable assistance, as

did the staffs of Professional Graphics, Rockford, Illinois, and

Meridian Printing, East Greenwich, Rhode Island.

Finally, we are most grateful to the Old Masters Society of

the Art Institute of Chicago, which provided critical funding to

insure that this issue would be properly, indeed, magnificently illustrated with many rich, color reproductions that convey the high quality and power of these important objects.

Larry J. Feinberg

Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Curator in the Department of Medieval to

Modern European Painting and Sculpture



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