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    The Virgin Enthroned with Saints Gregory and James, and a Family of Donors
    Perino del Vaga. The Virgin Enthroned with Saints Gregory and James, and a Family of Donors, 1535/36. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00005981

    The Virgin Enthroned with Saints Gregory and James, and a Family of Donors

    by Perino del Vaga

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Inscriptions

    Inscribed recto, upper right, in pen and blackish brown ink: “q[uest]a p[er]. S[anto]. D[…]; lower center, in pen and brown ink: “I C”; lower right, in pen and brown ink: “B”

    Provenance

    Sir Peter Lely (1618–1680), London [stamp (Lugt 2092), recto, lower right, in black]. William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire (1665–1729), Chatsworth, Derbyshire, England [stamp (Lugt 718), recto, lower right, in black]; by descent to the 11th Duke [listed as no. 152 in Chatsworth inventory]; Trustees of the Chatsworth Settlement; sold, Christie’s, London, July 3, 1984, lot 34. Sold, Christie’s, New York, Jan. 10, 1996, lot 100, to Jean and Steven Goldman, Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.

    Exhibition history

    Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, Old Master Drawings from Chatsworth, 1969–1970, cat. 53 (ill.); traveled. London, Victoria and Albert Museum, Old Master Drawings from Chatsworth, 1973–1974, cat. 53 (ill.). Mantua, Palazzo del Te, Perino del Vaga: Tra Raffaello e Michelangelo, 2001, lot 51 (ill. in reverse). Art Institute of Chicago, Drawn to Drawings: The Goldman Collection, Oct. 18, 2008–Jan. 18, 2009, cat. 9 (ill.).

    Publications

    A. E. Popham, “Sogliani and Perino del Vaga at Pisa,” Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 86:505 (1945), p. 86, no. 9, as Sogliani. Giovanna Rotondi, Il politico di Sant’Erasmo di Perino del Vaga: Rilevamento, una proposta didattica, problemi di restauro e di interpretazione, exh. cat. (Genoa: Museo dell’Accademia Ligustica, 1982), p. 9, fig. 3. Corrado Maltese (editor), Raffaello e la cultura raffaellesca in Liguria: Interventi di restauro, problemi di conservazione e fruizione, exh. cat. (Genoa: Galleria Nazionale di Palazzo Spinola, 1982–83), p. 61, fig. 61. Elena Parma Armani, Perin del Vaga: L’anello mancante (Sagep, 1986), p. 326, fig. 348. Linda Wolk-Simon, “The ‘Pala Doria’ and Andrea Doria’s Mortuary Chapel: A Newly Discovered Project by Perino del Vaga,” Artibus et historiae 13:26 (1992), p. 174, no. 6. Michael Jaffe, Roman and Neapolitan Schools (2 vols.) of the Devonshire Collection of Italian Drawings (London: Phaidon, 1994), no. 367 (ill.).

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Perino del Vaga / Italian, 1501–1547
    Date
    1535/36
    Medium
    Pen and brown ink, and brush and gray wash, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper; squared in black chalk, laid down on ivory card
    Dimensions
    35.7 × 25.4 cm (14 1/16 × 10 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    drawings (visual works)
    Place
    Italy
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Gift of Jean and Steven Goldman
    Accession no.
    2019.1601

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