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Mars and Cupid
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto on mount, at lower left, in graphite: "MichAnglo Buonaroti" [sic]; verso, upper center on mount, in pen and red ink: "Lot 687"
Provenance
Dr. Ridley, Croydon, England; sold, Sotheby's, London, April 2, 1912, part of lot 212, as Michelangelo, to William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower center, 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, "Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago," Apr. 12-June 22, 1997.
Publications
Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Italian Drawings of the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries (Chicago and London, 1979), p. 32, no. 1E9 (as Luca Cambiaso). Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura M. Giles, Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1997), p. 50, no. 55 (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Luca Cambiaso / Italian, 1527-1585
- Date
- c. 1550
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, over traces of black chalk, on buff laid paper, laid down on ivory laid card
- Dimensions
- 26.4 × 13.8 cm (10 7/16 × 5 7/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- ink with wash
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 1922.519
More by Luca Cambiaso in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00003487
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