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    The Holy Trinity with Saint Michael Conquering the Dragon
    Pietro da Cortona. The Holy Trinity with Saint Michael Conquering the Dragon, 1666. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00002418

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    The Holy Trinity with Saint Michael Conquering the Dragon

    by Pietro da Cortona

    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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