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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Study for Mercury
    Giacomo Cavedone. Study for Mercury, 1613/14. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00003045

    Study for Mercury

    by Giacomo Cavedone

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Inscriptions

    Inscribed recto, upper left, in pen and brown ink: "22"

    Provenance

    Charles Deering (1852–1927), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 516)]; by descent to his daughters, Mrs. Chauncey McCormick (née Marion Deering; 1886–1965), Chicago and Mrs. Richard Ely Danielson (née Barbara Deering; 1885–1957), Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1927.

    Exhibition history

    Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, "Bolognese Drawings in North American Collections," 1982, cat. 42 (ill.), as Francesco Albani.

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Art Institute of Chicago publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Art Institute of Chicago is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Giacomo Cavedone / Italian, 1577-1660
    Date
    1613/14
    Medium
    Black chalk, heightened with white chalk, on tan laid paper, laid down on brownish-gray laid paper
    Dimensions
    42 × 26 cm (16 9/16 × 10 1/4 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    chalk
    Place
    Italy
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    The Charles Deering Collection
    Accession no.
    1927.7665

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