Of all the 937 paintings in the permanent collection of the Chicago Art Institute, two most important to Director Robert Bartholow Harshe are Rembrandt's Girl at the Open Half-Door and El Greco's Assumption of the Virgin. Last week Director Harshe had a third picture to share honors with this notable pair. At a reported price of $200,000, Institute Trustee Charles H. Worcester bought from Wildenstein & Co. and lent to the Museum for an indefinite period Titian's Education of Cupid.
In the sumptuous color for which the great Venetian is famed, Education...
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