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Putti Carrying the Cross (recto); Studies of a Hand (verso)
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
More by Gian Lorenzo Bernini in museum collections
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