Metaphysical Interior with Biscuits (Interno metafisico con biscotti)

May 1953, one of six paintings sold by the artist, Giorgio de Chirico, to Nathan Cummings (Chicago); 1958, gifted to the University of Wisconsin–Madison; 1967, transferred to the Elvehjem Art Center [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

• Watrous, James. "A Century of Capricious Collecting 1877-1970: From the Gallery in Science Hall to the Elvehjem Museum of Art," Madison, WI: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1987. p. 17, no. 16
• Klein, Susan. Master's Thesis in Art Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison [design for World Wide Web]. 1998
• Elvehjem Art Center. "Inaugural Exhibition: 19th & 20th Century Art from Collections of Alumni & Friends." Madison, WI: Regents of the University of Wisconsin, 1970. p. 78, no. 86
• Committee on Institutional Cooperation. "Paintings from Midwestern University Collections: Seventeenth-Twentieth Centuries." Evanston, Ill.: Committee on Institutional Cooperation, 1973. pp. 116-117, no. 46
• Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Handbook of the Collection." Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Madison, 1990. no. 117
• Chazen Museum of Art. "Artscene." Vol. 25, No. 2, July-December 2008. p. 3
• Picozza, Paolo and Lorenzo Canova; Fondazione Giorgio e Isa de Chirico. "Giorgio de Chirico. Catalogo Generale. Opere dal 1913 al 1975." Volume 4. Falciano: Maretti Editore, 2018. pp. 285 (illus), 504, cat. no. 1606
• Farmer, Sophia Maxine. "Giorgio de Chirico's artful deception: The story of Nathan Cummings's 'true fakes' scandal." Journal of the History of Collections, 2022. fig. 4

• Paintings from Midwestern University Collections: 17th-20th Centuries: Committee on Institutional Cooperation and Member Universities, 10/3/1973–4/27/1975
• Inaugural Exhibition: 19th & 20th Cen. Art from Collection of Alumni & Friends: Elvehjem Art Center, 9/11/1970–11/8/1970

• Europe
• Paintings

The Chazen Museum of Art welcomes comments or inquiries about works in our collection. Please allow two–three weeks for a response. Chazen staff is not able to provide valuations or authentications and such inquiries cannot be answered.