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AT-00005441Head of Saint Stephen: Study for the Martyrdom of Saint Stephen
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto, lower right, in pen and brown ink: "IS" (probably a transcription of the collector’s mark of the Earl Spencer [L.1530]); inscribed recto, on former mount: "Lanfranco"
Provenance
John, 1st Earl Spencer, Althorp House, Northamptonshire [Lugt 1530]. Sold by Thomas Philipe, London, 13 June 1811, no. 428 (as Lanfranco) to Cox. Unidentified collector [shelfmark on verso of former mount]. Sold, Christie’s, London, 11 April 1978, lot 50. Kent Sobotik, Dayton, Ohio. Sold, Christie’s, New York, 15 January 1992, lot 21. Sold by P.&D. Colnaghi & Co., London and New York, to the Art Institute, 1992.
Exhibition history
The Art Institute of Chicago, P&D Galleries, August 6, 1994-January 31, 1995 (installation). The Art Institute of Chicago, "Strokes of Genius: Italian Drawings from the Goldman Collection," November 1, 2014-February 1, 2015.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jacopo Cavedone / Italian, 1577-1660
- Date
- 1627/30
- Medium
- Black chalk, heightened with touches of white chalk and white oil paint, on brown laid paper, laid down on Japanese paper, edge mounted to off-white wove paper
- Dimensions
- 38.4 × 29.9 cm (15 1/8 × 11 13/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- chalk
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- William D. Shorey Fund; Sara R. Shorey and Henry C. Woods Endowments
- Accession no.
- 1992.173
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