Treasures of the Sea

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Painting and Sculpture of Europe

c. 1870/75

Hans Makart
Austrian, 1840-1884

Currently Off View: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Hans Makart
Title: Treasures of the Sea
Origin: Austria
Date: 1865–1880
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 40.3 × 105.7 cm (15 7/8 × 41 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: A. A. Munger Collection
Reference Number: 1901.440

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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