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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Head of the Swooning Virgin: Study for the Deposition (recot) Base of Column (verso)
    Federico Barocci. Head of the Swooning Virgin: Study for the Deposition (recot) Base of Column (verso), 1568/69. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00004597

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    Head of the Swooning Virgin: Study for the Deposition (recot) Base of Column (verso)

    by Federico Barocci

    Inscriptions

    Inscribed recto, on former mount (GCI): "F. Baroccio / P.M. from sale of Chesney Collection at Sothebys-1885"

    Provenance

    Provenance: Edward Cheney (1803–1884), London [inscription; Lugt 444]; sold, Sotheby's, London, April 29–May 5, 1885, Edward Cheney sale, part of lot 932 (as Baroccio and others, Studies of Heads). Sir John C. Robinson (1924–1913), London (Lugt 1433) [Sotheby's annotated sale catalogue]. Unidentified script P.M. Sold, Puttick & Simpson, London, July 24, 1913, part of lot 186, to William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [his stamp (not in Lugt) recto, lower left, in black]; given to the Art Institute, 1922.

    Exhibition history

    Newark Museum, "Old Master Drawings," March 17-May 22, 1960, cat. 29 (ill.). Detroit Institute of Arts, "Art In Italy: 1600-1700," 1965, pp. 73-74, cat. 64. The Cleveland Museum of Art, "Federico Barocci: Selected Drawings and Prints," February 15-March 26, 1978, pp. 49-50, cat. 22 (ill.), cat. by Edmund P. Pillsbury and Louise S. Richards, also traveled to Yale University Art Gallery, April 11-June 4, 1978. Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, "Italian Drawings in The Art Institute of Chicago," cat. 31, pl. 34, cat. by Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, 1979-80. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago," April 10-June 22, 1997 (recto only). St. Louis Art Museum, "Federico Barocci (c. 1535-1612)", October 17, 2012 - January 20, 2013. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Strokes of Genius: Italian Drawings from the Goldman Collection," November 1, 2014-February 1, 2015.

    Publications

    Ulrich Middeldorf, "Old Master Drawings from the Fifteenth through the Eighteenth Centuries: Two Hundred Examples from the Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, Selected and Described by Ulrich Middeldorf," unpublished manuscript, Department of Prints and Drawings, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1938/40, no. 106. Ulrich Middeldorf, "Three Italian Drawings in Chicago," in Art in America 27 (1939), pp. 11-14, fig. 1. Hans Tietze, European Master Drawings in the United States (New York, 1947) pp. 94-95, no. 47 (ill.). Harald Olsen, "Federico Barocci: A Critical Study in Italian Cinquecento Painting," Figura 6 (1955), p. 120. Harald Olsen, "Federico Baroccio", Figura 6, 2nd ed.(Copenhagen, 1962), pp. 152-53, no. 21. Frederick Cummings, Art in Italy, 1600-1700, exh. cat. (Detroit, 1965), pp. 73-74, no. 64. Graham Smith, "Federico Barocci at Cleveland and New Haven," Burlington Magazine 120 (1978), p. 333, fig. 107. Edmund P. Pillsbury and Louise S. Richards, The Graphic Art of Federico Barocci, exh. cat. (New Haven, 1978), pp. 49-50, no. 22 (ill.). Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Italian Drawings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago and London, 1979), p. 38, no. 31, pl. 34. Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings of the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries, compiled by Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Sandra Haller Olsen (Chicago and London), p. 19, no. 1C4 (ill. microfiche). 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, vol. 17, no. 1 (1991), p. 65, fig. 17. 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. 15-17, no. 15 (ill.).

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Federico Barocci / Italian, c. 1535-1612
    Date
    1568/69
    Medium
    Black chalk and charcoal, with stumping and traces of white chalk, on tan laid paper, pieced and incised
    Dimensions
    29.4 × 23.9 cm (11 5/8 × 9 7/16 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    chalk
    Place
    Italy
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
    Accession no.
    1922.5406

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