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Marriage of the Virgin
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto, upper right, in graphite: "6"
Provenance
Claudine Bouzonnet-Stella (the artist’s niece); by descent to Michel de Masso. Gaetano Minossi Romano, by 1756. Thomas Talbot of Margam (1747-1806) [according to London 1986 auc. cat.]. Possibly Lady Blythswood (died 1958); by descent toher grandson, Christopher Methuen-Campbell (died 1998). Sold, Christie’s, London, Dec. 9, 1986, lot 127, 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. 28, 1999, checklist no. 15.
Publications
Shelley Perlove and George S. Keyes (editors). Seventeenth-Century European Drawings in Midwestern Collections (University of Notre Dame Press, 2014), pp. 226, 268 no. 106, 267, 270 (ill.), 271.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jacques Stella / French, 1596-1657
- Date
- c. 1640
- Medium
- Pen and black ink, with brush and gray and pale brown wash and graphite, on pieced cream laid paper (two figures before column are cut from a similar paper and inserted over a slightly smaller hole in the primary support)
- Dimensions
- 36.7 × 26.7 cm (14 1/2 × 10 9/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 2013.1029
More by Jacques Stella in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00005793
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