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Study for Saint Michael Casting Out Lucifer
Inscriptions
Inscribed verso, in pen and brown ink, "F. Zuccaro"; inscribed recto, lower center, on former mount, in graphite: "145"; inscribed verso, lower left, on former mount, in graphite: "Lodovico Car.-25 Aple 1830"
Provenance
Unknown Italian collector, c. 1830 [script (Lugt 3005f), verso, lower left, on former mount, in graphite]. Sold, Puttick & Simpson, London, May 15, 1914, part of lot 85, to William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, upper left, in black]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922 [stamp (Lugt 1230b), verso, lower center on former 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. New Haven, Conn., Yale University Art Gallery, "Franceso Vanni: Art in Late Renaissance Siena," September 27, 2013-January 5, 2014, cat. 1, pp. 48-50, cat. by John Marciari et. al.
Publications
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. 244-45, no. 318 (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Francesco Vanni / Italian, 1563-1610
- Date
- 1581/83
- Medium
- Black chalk on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 19.4 × 15.3 cm (7 11/16 × 6 1/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- chalk
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 1922.2262
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