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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Putti Carrying the Cross (recto); Studies of a Hand (verso) by Gian Lorenzo Bernini
    Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Putti Carrying the Cross (recto); Studies of a Hand (verso), 1672/75. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
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    Putti Carrying the Cross (recto); Studies of a Hand (verso)

    by Gian Lorenzo Bernini

    Provenance

    Dr. Alfredo Viggiano (died 1948), Venice [Lugt 191a]. Sold, Christie's, London, December 19, 1991, lot 139. Sold by Thomas Williams Fine Art Ltd., London, to the Art Institute, 1993.

    Exhibition history

    Paris, University of Notre Dame, The Snite Museum of Art, "Rome in the Age of Bernini," November 15-29, 1998. Fairfield, Connecticut, Fairfield University Art Museum, "The Holy Name; Treasurers from the Gesù, Bernini and his Age", February 1 - May 20, 2018, cat. 45, pp. 510-511 (ill.), cat. by Linda Wolk-Simon, et. al.

    Publications

    Jennifer Tonkovich, "Two Studies for the Gesú and a ‘quarantore’ Design by Bernini," Burlington Magazine (January 1998), pp. 34-37 (ill.). Shelley Perlove and George S. Keyes (editors). Seventeenth-Century European Drawings in Midwestern Collections (University of Notre Dame Press, 2014), pp. 22, 30 no. 4, 31 0(ill.), 32, Linda Wolk-Simon, "Artistic Splendors of the Gesú", University Fairfield Magazine (Winter 2018), p. 26-27 (ill.).

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Gian Lorenzo Bernini / Italian, 1598-1680
    Date
    1672/75
    Medium
    Charcoal and black chalk, with stumping (recto); black chalk (verso) on ivory laid paper
    Dimensions
    27.5 × 20.2 cm (10 7/8 × 8 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    chalk
    Place
    Italy
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Margaret Day Blake Endowment and Harold Joachim Memorial Endowment Fund
    Accession no.
    1993.173

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