
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00005730Saint Francis of Assisi Adoring the Virgin and Child
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).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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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