Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00005940The Coronation of the Virgin
by Ercole Setti
Inscriptions
Inscribed verso, center, in graphite: "40" [encircled]; lower left, in graphite: "910305/7"; upper left on mount, in graphite: "40" ; upper left on mount, in pen and brown ink: "40"
Provenance
Sold, Christie’s, New York, Jan. 28, 2000, lot 8, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.
Exhibition history
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. 30, cat. 5 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, "The Thrill of the Chase: Drawings for the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," Mar. 15-June 15, 2014, no cat.
Publications
Angelo Mazza, “La pittura a Modena a Reggio Emilia nella seconda metà del Cinquecento,” in La Pittura in Emilia e in Romagna, Il Cinquecento, vol. 2 (Electa, 1996), pp. 185–202 (ill.). 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. 30, cat. 5 (ill.).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Ercole Setti / Italian, 1530–1617
- Date
- 1575
- Medium
- Pen and brown iron-gall ink and brush and brown wash, heightened with white gouache, over traces of graphite, on blue laid paper, squared in graphite for transfer, with extraneous traces of colored oil paints
- Dimensions
- 18.4 × 20.3 cm (7 1/4 × 8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- prints and drawing
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 2013.1026
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