Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00004605Solomon and the Queen of Sheba (recto); Sketch of the Queen of Sheba (verso)
Inscriptions
Inscribed on former mount (according to Gurley Card Index): "P. Veronese"; inscribed verso, center right, in pen and brown ink: "BW"; lower left in graphite: "From Dr. Wellesley's Collection"; lower center in graphite: "14 Xembre 1832"; at left edge, in graphite: "B. Castello"
Provenance
Unknown Italian collector, early-mid-nineteenth-century [script (Lugt 3005f), verso, lower center in graphite]. Dr. H. Wellesley [according to inscription, verso, lower left in graphite], sold, Sotheby's, London, June 25-July 11, 1866, possibly lot 956 (as "subject by Veronese"). R. Johnson [stamp (Lugt 2216), laid down verso, lower left, in black]. Parsons and Sons [stamp (Lugt 2881), laid down verso, lower right on mount, in black]. Sold, Puttick & Simpson, London, Jan. 15, 1915, to 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, lower right, in black].
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), p. 78, no. 96 (ill.).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Bernardo Castello / Italian, 1557-1629
- Date
- 1590/99
- Medium
- Pen and iron gall ink on ivory laid paper (recto and verso)
- Dimensions
- 13 × 43 cm (5 1/8 × 16 15/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and iron gall ink
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 1922.634
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