Jeffrey and Carol Horvitz gift AI of Chicago 2,000 Works

February 13 2025

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Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:

News from the US that collectors Jeffrey and Carol Horvitz have gifted 2,000 works to the Art Institute of Chicago. Containing works that span from the 16th - 19th centuries, press reports suggest it 'will allow the museum to provide a “300-year panorama of French art” that is unique outside of France.' The gift includes works by François Boucher, Jacques-Louis David, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Théodore Géricault, and Charles Le Brun, Marie-Gabrielle Capet, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Anne Vallayer Coster, and Élisabeth Vigée Lebrun, Jacques Bellange, Reynaud Levieux, and Nicolas Prevost.