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Jacob's Dream
possibly 1613 or 1614
Domenico Feti
1588/89 - 1623
Italian
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Oil on wood panel
Unframed: 23 13/16 × 17 1/16 inches (60.5 × 43.4 cm) Framed: 28 3/8 × 21 3/4 × 2 1/4 inches (72.1 × 55.2 × 5.7 cm)
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Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund
39.669
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1939, (Jacob Heimann, New York, New York, USA);1939-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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The exhibition history of a number of objects in our collection only begins after their acquisition by the museum, and may reflect an incomplete record.
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Newberry, J. S. "An Italian Baroque Painting at Alger House," Bulletin of the DIA 19, no. 6 (1939/1940): pp. 69-71, (repr.).
An Exhibition of Italian Baroque Painting, 17th and 18th Centuries. Exh. cat., California Palace of the Legion of Honor. San Franciso, 1941, p. 16, no. 36; (repr.), p. 42.
Francis, Henry S. "Jacob's Dream by Domenico Feti," Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art (1941): no. 9, p. 135, note 2 (cited).
Richardson, E.P., ed. DIA Catalogue of Paintings, 2nd ed. 1944, p. 46, no. 528.
Italian Baroque Painting: 17th and 18th Centuries. Exh. cat., Smith College of Art. Northampton, 1947.
A Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Domenico Feti, 1589-1624. Exh. cat., Durlacher Brother. New York, 1950, cat. 5 [entry by B. Davidson].
Breuning, M. "Accomplished Feti," Art Digest, vol. 24, no. 12 (March 15, 1950): p. 10, (repr.) [review of Durlacher exhibition].
La Farge, H. A. "Fetti's Variations on His Own Theme," Art News, vol. 49, no.1 (March 1950): p. 44, (repr.) [entry by H.L.F., review of Durlacher show].
Pallucchini, R. "Una mostra del Fetti a New York," Arte Veneta, vol. 4 (1950): p. 184 [overview].
Arslan, E. "Cinque disegni veneti: Farinati, Fetti, Bassetti, Crosato, Pietro Longhi," Arte Veneta, vol. 8 (1954): pp. 289-94, esp. p. 291, no. 2.
Katalog der Gemäldegalerie: Italiener, Spanier, Franzosen, Englander, vol. 1. Kunsthistorishes Museum. Vienna, 1960, pp. 49 [cited, cat. 529].
Art in Italy: 1600-1700. Detroit, 1965, pp. 166-7, no. 190, (repr.) [entry by R. L. Manning].
Lehmann, Jurgen M. "Leben und Werk des Römanische Malers." PhD. diss., Darmstadt, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt-am-Main, 1967, p. 184, no. 24.
Donzelli, C. & G.M. Pilo. I Pittori del Seicento Veneto. Florence, 1967, p. 175.
Fredericksen, B. & F. Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, 1972, pp. 70, 256, 579.
Pallucchini, R. "Una Collezione Italiana a Londra," Arte Veneta, vol. 1 (1981): p. 136.
Hidden Treasures: Wisconsin Collects Painting and Sculpture. Exh. cat., Milwaukee Art Museum. Milwaukee, 1987, p. 93, cat 15, p. 93, (repr.).
Safarik, Eduard A. Fetti. Milan, 1990, pp. 35-36, (fig. 3b) [as workshop, with possible participation of Fetti], 37, no. 3h, 3g and 3y, 37-38, no. 3z.
Mantova, Palazzo Te. Domenico Fetti 1588/89-1623. 1996, pp. 198, cat. 48, (color repr.); p. 200 [entry by E.A Safarik--cites DIA picture as studio replica; also repr. versions in Vienna and Rome].
Bissell, R. W., A. Derstine, and D. Miller. Masters of Italian Baroque Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2005, pp. 9, 72-75 [cat. no. 24, entry by W. Bissell].
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Domenico Feti, Jacob's Dream, possibly 1613 or 1614, oil on wood panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund, 39.669.
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