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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Allegorical Subject (Angel above Two Sibyls)
    Luca Cambiaso. Allegorical Subject (Angel above Two Sibyls), 1560/65. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00003378

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    Allegorical Subject (Angel above Two Sibyls)

    by Luca Cambiaso

    Inscriptions

    Inscribed recto, lower right on mount, in pen and brown ink: "4667"; in graphite: "Cambiaso"; verso, upper center on mount in graphite: "Luca Cangiagi.- / Cambiaso / Luchetto da Genova"; lower right, in graphite: "Lucca Cangiasi"

    Provenance

    Paul Sandby [stamp (Lugt 2112), recto, lower left, in black]. Frederick R. Aikman; sold, Puttick & Simpson, London, Mar. 14, 1913, William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower right and verso, center on mount, in black]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922 [stamp (Lugt 1230b), verso, center on mount, in black].

    Exhibition history

    Art Institute of Chicago, "The Leonora Hall Gurley Collection of Drawings: Early Italian," March 5-April 30, 1922, cat. 3 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, "A Century of Progress: Exhibion of Paintings and Sculpture," June 1-November 1, 1933, cat. 799 (as 'Allegory of History'). Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago," April 10-July 22, 1997.

    Publications

    William McCallin McKee, "The Gurley Collection of Drawings," Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 16, no. 2 (1922), pp. 25-27 (ill.). Licia Ragghianti Collobi, "Luca Cambiaso Disegnatore," Critica d'Arte 3 (1954), pp. 239-62. James Watrous, The Craft of Old-Master Drawings (Madison, 1967), pp. 74-75 (ill.) (as 'Three Figures'). Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Italian Drawings in the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), pp. 34-35, no. 25, pl. 32. Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings of the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries, The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), p. 30, no. 1E4. Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura M. Giles, Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1997), pp. 52-53, no. 59 (ill.).

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Luca Cambiaso / Italian, 1527-1585
    Date
    1560/65
    Medium
    Pen and iron gall ink and brush and brown wash, on tan laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper, laid down on ivory laid card
    Dimensions
    27.5 × 25.4 cm (10 7/8 × 10 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    pen and ink drawings
    Place
    Italy
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
    Accession no.
    1922.15

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