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AT-00002155Two Seated Kings of Judah; Josiah and Hezekiah
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto, lower left, in pen and brown ink: "Bernardo Castello"; lower left of center, in pen and brown ink: "IOSIA"; lower center, in pen and brown ink: "P G [?] Sma trinità"; lower right of center, in pen and brown ink: "ESECHIA"
Provenance
William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922.
Exhibition history
Binghamton, N.Y., University Art Gallery, State University of New York, "Genoese Baroque Drawings," Oct. 1-31, 1972, cat. 16, p. 7, (ill.); also the Worcester Art Museum, Nov. 8-Dec. 10, 1972. Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago," Apr. 12-June 22, 1997.
Publications
Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Italian Drawings of the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries (Chicago and London, 1979), p. 121, 4C5. Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura M. Giles, Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1997), p. 77, no. 94 (ill.).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Bernardo Castello / Italian, 1557-1629
- Date
- 1591
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink with brush and pale brown wash, heightened with lead white (partly oxidized), on blue laid paper, laid down on ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
- 19.8 × 26.7 cm (7 13/16 × 10 9/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- ink and wash
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 1922.5681
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