Signora Ortensia Leoni Cordini as Saint Dorothy

By 1956, collection of Miss G. Bulteel (London, England); 25 July 1956, sold at Sotheby’s London auction (lot 166) to Dent [an art dealer] (London, England); by 1960, purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Marc B. Rojtman (Milwaukee, WI); December 1960, gifted to the University of Wisconsin–Madison; 1967, transferred to the Elvehjem Art Center [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

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• Faculty Exhibition 2020: Chazen Museum of Art, 2/1/2020–7/31/2020
• Portraits in Western Art: Seventeenth to Twentieth Centuries: Chazen Museum of Art, 2/22/2013–3/17/2013
• Restoring a Baroque Painting: Sirani's "Signora Ortensia Leoni Cordini as Saint : Chazen Museum of Art, 11/1/2005–11/30/2005
• Elisabetta Sirani "pittrice eroina" 1638-1665 : Museo Civico Archaeologico de Bologna, 12/4/2004–4/10/2005

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