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Christ Child: Study for the Madonna di San Giovanni
Provenance
William F. E. Gurley (?) (1854-1943), Chicago (not stamped); bequeathed to the Art Institute as part of the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1943 (?) (accessioned 1990).
Exhibition history
The Art Institute of Chicago, March 17, 1989-May 2, 1990. New York, The Frick Collection, "From Pontormo to Seurat: Drawings Recently Acquired by The Art Institute of Chicago," April 23-July 7, 1991, n.p., cat. 4; The Art Institute of Chicago, September 10, 1991-January 5, 1992. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago," April 10, 1997-July 22, 1997. The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Broad Spectrum: Color on Paper, Past and Present," September 12–October 31, 1999, hors. cat.
Publications
Suzanne Folds McCullagh, "Serendipity in a Solander Box: A Recently Discovered Pastel and Chalk Drawing by Federico Barocci," Italian Drawings at The Art Institute: Recent Acquisitions and Discoveries, The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, 17 (1991), pp. 44-45, 52-65, and 93-94 (and back cover). 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. 14-15, no. 14 (ill.). Alessandro Ballarin, and Vittoria Romani (ed.), Dipartimento di Storia delle arti visive e della musica, Università di Padova, Pittura del Rinascimento nell'Italia Settentrionale, 6 (Cittadella-Padova, 2000).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Federico Barocci / Italian, c. 1535-1612
- Date
- c. 1565
- Medium
- Black and red chalk, with pastel and stumping, on greenish-blue laid paper
- Dimensions
- 40.1 × 26.3 cm (15 13/16 × 10 3/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- chalk
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 1990.512.1
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