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Inscriptions
Inscribed recto, lower right, in pen and black ink: "L. Cangiagio"; verso, upper left on mount, in graphite: "Colls. of Wm. Young Ottley / Sir Thomas Lawrence"
Provenance
W. Young Ottley [script (Lugt 2663) recto, lower left, in pen and black ink]. Sir Thomas Lawrence [see Lugt 2445-46, according to inscription, verso, upper left on mount, in graphite]. Dr. C. D. Ginsburg [stamp (Lugt 1145), recto, lower left and verso, lower left on mount, in black]; sold, Sotheby's, London, July 20, 1915, part of lot 8, as Cambiaso, to Maggs Bros., London. William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower right, 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, "151 Italian Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," Dec. 1979-Mar. 1980, p. 34, cat. 24, pl. 33, cat. by Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh; also to the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago," Apr. 12-June 22, 1997.
Publications
Suida Manning, Chrysler Art Museum of Provincetown, inaugural exhibition (Provincetown, Mass., 1958), p. 189, pl. 15, fig. 21. Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Italian Drawings of the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries (Chicago and London, 1979), p. 30, no. 1E5. 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. 50-1, no. 56 (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Luca Cambiaso / Italian, 1527-1585
- Date
- c. 1555
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, on buff laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- 24.2 × 17.4 cm (9 9/16 × 6 7/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- ink with wash
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 1922.566
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