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Saint Joseph and the Sleeping Christ Child
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto, l.c, in pen and brown ink: "Bartolomé Murillo fecit"
Provenance
Possibly Alleyne Fitzherbert, Baron St. Helens (1783–1839). Sold, Christie's, London, May 26, 1840, lot 102 (one of a pair). Private collection, Scotland; sold, Phillips, London, Dec. 3, 1997, lot 120, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA.; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, "Gifts of a Lifetime, Old Master Drawings," Dec. 11, 1998–Mar. 30, 1999, checklist 19. Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 37, cat. 12 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, "The Thrill of the Chase: Drawings for the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," March 15-June 15, 2014, no cat.
Publications
“Scotland Yard Sale”, Top 100 Treasures (Mar. 1998), p. 77. Suzanne Folds McCullagh, “Drawings in The Art Institute of Chicago,” Master Drawings 38:3 (Fall 2000), p. 247. Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), p. 37, cat. 12 (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Bartolomé Esteban Murillo / Spanish, 1618-1682
- Date
- 1670/75
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper, laid down on beige wove card
- Dimensions
- Primary support: 16.4 × 13.6 cm (6 1/2 × 5 3/8 in.); Secondary support: 17.9 × 15.3 cm (7 1/16 × 6 1/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- Spain
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 2013.993
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