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The Holy Trinity with Saint Michael Conquering the Dragon
Provenance
Probably with John Udny (1727-1800), London [Lugt 2248], 1762 [according to Gottardo 2005]. Viscount Churchill, probably Victor Albert Francis Charles Spencer (1864-1938) [according to St. Louis 1972, and Gottardo 2005]. Earl of Harewood; sold, Christie’s, London, July 6, 1965, Harewood sale, lot 122, to Hans Calmann, London [according to sale results in catalogue]; sold to the Art Institute, 1965.
Exhibition history
The Art Institute of Chicago, "A Quarter Century of Collecting: Drawings Given to The Art Institute of Chicago 1944-1970 by Margaret Day Blake," April 28-June 7, 1970, n.p., cat. 7 (ill.), as "The VIsion of St. John the Evangelist." St. Louis Art Museum, "Italian Drawings Selected from Mid-Western Collections," February 25-April 16, 1972, cat. 40. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, "Old Master Drawings from American Collections," April 29-June 13, 1976, cat. 117. The Art Institute of Chicago, "151 Italian Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," December 1979-March 1980, cat. 65, cat. by Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh; also traveled to Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 34-35, cat. 6 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi; traveled to the St. Louis Art Museum, March 10-May 16, 1986. The Art Institute of Chicago, October 28, 1987-July 29, 1988.
Publications
Heinrich Geissler and Volkmar Schauz, "Zur Stich-Vorzeichnung bei Pietro da Cortona und seinem Kreis," Jahrbuch der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen in Baden-Wurtetmberg, 15 (Baden-Wurtetmberg, 1978), pp. 26-27 (ill.). Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings of the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries (Chicago, 1979), no. 3F5. Dieter Graf, "Disegni di Pietro da Cortona e della sua scuola per il Missale Romanum del 1662," in Pietro da Cortona, Atti del convegno internazionale Roma-Firenze, 12-15 November 1997 (Rome, 1998), pp. 202-03 (ill.). Ketty Gottardo, "Il gusto collezionistico di un eccentrico personaggio veneziano. La raccolta di disegni di 'Zotto' Sagredo" in Il collezionismo a Venezia e nel Veneto ai tempi della Serenissima (Venice, 2005), pp. 243 (ill.), 245, and 257 (note 76). Shelley Perlove and George S. Keyes (editors). Seventeenth-Century European Drawings in Midwestern Collections (University of Notre Dame Press, 2014), pp. 21, 22, 58 no. 17, 59 (ill.)
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Pietro da Cortona / Italian, 1596-1669
- Date
- 1666
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown and gray wash, heightened with lead white (discolored) and black chalk, on tan laid paper, laid down on tan laid card
- Dimensions
- 45.8 × 35.7 cm (18 1/16 × 14 1/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Margaret Day Blake Collection
- Accession no.
- 1965.860
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