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Studies for Prophets in Spandrels
Provenance
Leopold I, Fürst von Anhalt-Dessau (1676-1747) [stamp (Lugt 1708b), verso, lower center, in black]. Philip Hofer (1898-1986), Camden, Maine, by 1939 [according to MFA exh. cat. 1939]. Sold by Durlacher Brothers, New York (through Budworth) to the Art Institute in 1941, as Paolo Veronese [receipt in curatorial file].
Exhibition history
Washington, D.C., International Exhibitions Foundation, "Venetian Drawings from American Collections," September 1974-April 1975, cat. 23, as by Veronese, cat. by Terisio Pignatti; traveled to Fort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Art Museum, and St. Louis, Mo., The St. Louis Art Museum. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, "Old Master Drawings from American Collections," April 20-June 8, 1976. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago," April 10-July 22, 1997. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Strokes of Genius: Italian Drawings from the Goldman Collection," November 1, 2014-February 1, 2015.
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. 134-35, no. 174 (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Aurelio Luini / Italian, 1530-1593
- Date
- c. 1555
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink with brush and gray wash, and traces of black chalk, on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- 28.8 × 21.5 cm (11 3/8 × 8 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- drawings (visual works)
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Robert A. Waller Fund
- Accession no.
- 1943.1060V
More by Aurelio Luini in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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