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Allegorical Subject (Angel above Two Sibyls)
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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