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    Saint Francis of Assisi Adoring the Virgin and Child
    Denys Calvaert. Saint Francis of Assisi Adoring the Virgin and Child, 1607. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00005730

    Saint Francis of Assisi Adoring the Virgin and Child

    by Denys Calvaert

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Inscriptions

    Inscribed verso, upper left, in graphite: "101"; lower left, in graphite: "D.6924/2"

    Provenance

    Jonathan Richardson, Jr. (1694–1771) [stamp (Lugt 2170), recto, lower right, in black]. Yvonne Tan Bunzl, London, by 1970 [London, 1970]; sold to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, Mass., Feb. 1971; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1998.

    Exhibition history

    London, Faerber and Maison, Old Master Drawings and Paintings Presented by Yvonne Tan Bunzl, April 6–25, 1970, cat. 15 (ill.). Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Italian Drawings and Prints around 1600, Dec. 9, 1974–Feb. 15, 1975. Art Institute of Chicago, Gifts of a Lifetime: 49 Old Masters Drawings from the Dorothy Braude Edinburg Collection, Dec. 11,1998–Mar. 28,1999, checklist 9. 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. 32, cat. 7 (ill.). The Art Institute of Chicago, "Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age", September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 85 (ill.), 86-87, 292-93 cat. 26, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.

    Publications

    D. Stephen Pepper, The Bob Jones University Collection of Religious Art: Italian Paintings (Greenville, SC: Bob Jones University, 1984), p. 39, under cat. 36.1. David H. Steel, Jr., Baroque Paintings from the Bob Jones University Collection, exh. cat. (Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1984), p. 34, under cat. 6, fig. 4. Teréz Gerszi, “Un Dessin récemment indentifié de Denys Calvaert,” Bulletin du Musée Hongrois des Beaux-Arts 64 (1985), pp. 35–42, fig. 19. Giuliano Briganti et al., The Age of Correggio and the Carracci: Emilian Painting of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, exh. cat. (Washington, D.C.: National gallery of Art, 1986–87), p. 78, under cat.17. Simone Twiehaus, Dionisio Calvaert, um 1540–1619: Die Altarwerke (Berlin: Reimer, 2002), p. 222, under cat. A26, fig. 57. Mary Vaccaro, “A New Identified Drawing by Denys Calvaert in the Uffizi,” Burlington Magazine 158 (March, 2016), p. 193 (ill).

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Denys Calvaert / Flemish, c. 1540-1619
    Date
    1607
    Medium
    Black chalk on blue laid paper
    Dimensions
    52.1 × 31.2 cm (20 9/16 × 12 5/16 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    chalk
    Place
    Flanders
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
    Accession no.
    1998.99

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