Lamentation

Inscriptions

Inscribed verso, lower center on mount, in graphite: Giulio Clovio

Exhibition history

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago," April 10-June 22, 1997.

Publications

Ulrich Middeldorf, "Three Italian Drawings in Chicago: Art in Chicago" 27 (1929), pp. 11-14, fig. 5 (as Giulio Clovio) John A. Gere and Philip Pouncey, Italian Drawings in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum: Artists working in Rome c. 1550 to c. 1640, 2 vols. (London, 1983), vol. 1, pp. 58-59, nos. 69-70. The Illustrated Bartsch, ed. Walter L. Strauss and Tomoko Shimura (New York, 1986), v. 52, p. 110, no. 92-I (engraving by Cornelis Cort after Clovio). Philippe Costamagna, Maso da san Friano: La Pietà de l'église Florentine de Santa Maria dei Candelli Redécouverte (Paris, 1992), pp. 19, 22, no. 35. Philippi Costamagna, "A propos du séjour Florentin de Giulio Blovio (1498-1578) in Kunst des Cinquecento in der Toskano" (Munich, 1992), pp. 168-75; p. 175, no. 20. 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. 94-95, no. 119 (ill.).

Quick Overview

Artist: Giulio Clovio / Croatian, active Italy, 1498–1578
Date: 1540/68
Medium: Black chalk on ivory laid paper, pieced and laid down on ivory laid card
Dimensions: 27.3 × 22.9 cm (10 3/4 × 9 1/16 in.)
Type: Drawing
Classification: chalk
Place: Italy
Department: Prints and Drawings
Credit line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Accession no.: 1922.3173

Provenance

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