Inscription
on central sphere of upper border: AMERICA; on foremost ingot at lower right: L. VAN SCHOOR. IN. & PINX.; in the lower galloon, left of center, the Brussels city mark: B [shield] B; in the lower galloon, right of center: A.AVWERCX.
Provenance
Purchased before 1914 at a private sale in France by James Hazen Hyde [1876-1959], Paris;[1] bequest 1959 to NGA.
Exhibition History
- 1931
- Quatre Siècles de Colonisation Française, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, 1931, no. 419.
- 1971
- Extended loan for use by the Ambassador, U.S. Department of State, Paris, France, 1971-1975.
- 1975
- The European Vision of America, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Cleveland Museum of Art; Grand Palais, Paris, 1976-1977, no. 123, repro. (shown only in Washington).
Bibliography
- 1924
- Hyde, James Hazen. "L'Iconographie des quatre parties du monde dans les tapisseries." Gazette des Beaux-Arts per. 5, vol. 10 (1924): 260.
- 2013
- Arizzoli, Louise. "James Hazen Hyde and the Allegory of the Four Continents: A research collection for an amateur art historian." Journal of the History of Collections 25, no. 2 (2013): 277-286, esp. 277, 284.
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