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Holy Family with the Infant Saint John
Provenance
Possibly Charles H. Marcellis [stamp, recto, lower right; see Lugt Suppl. 609]. Col. E. R. Lamponi (died before 1902), Florence and Turin [stamp, recto, lower left; Lugt 1760]. Mr. Hugo L. Loewe, Berlin [according to a letter from Norman Pritchard dated July 3. 1961 in curatorial file]; by descent to his daughter, Marie Louise Pritchard, Chicago [according to Norman Pritchard]; given to the Art Institute, 1960.
Exhibition history
Binghamton, New York, University Art Gallery, State University of New York, "Genoese Baroque Drawings," October 1-31, 1972, cat. 69; traveled to the Worcester Art Museum, November 8-December 10, 1972. The Art Institute of Chicago, "151 Italian Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," 1979-1980, cat. 82, cat. by Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh; traveled to The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Holy Family in Art," December 1985.
Publications
J. Bean, "Publications Received: Genoese Baroque Drawings," Master Drawings, 11 (Autumn 1973), pp. 293-294. Newcome, "The Drawings of Valerio Castello," Master Drawings, 13 (Spring 1975), p. 29 (ill.). Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries and Spanish Drawings of the 17th through 19th Centuries (Chicago, 1980), no. 4C9.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Valerio Castello / Italian, 1624-1659
- Date
- n.d.
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, with brush and pale brown wash, over red chalk and brush and red chalk wash, on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
- 15.5 × 18 cm (6 1/8 × 7 1/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Marie Louise Pritchard
- Accession no.
- 1960.835
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