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Study for the Christ Child in the Madonna of S. Simone (recto); Study of a Landscape (verso)
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto, lower left on former mount, in pen and brown ink: "Federico Barocci / [illegible, crossed out words]"; lower right, in pen and brown ink: "R" [?]
Provenance
John Skippe (1742–1811), Ledbury; his daughter Penelope Skippe (died 1830), wife of James Martin (1738–1844), Overbury Court, Worcestershire; their son John Martin (1774–1831), Overbury Court; his son Robert Martin (1808–1897), Overbury Court; his daughter Penelope Martin (1842–1873), wife of Rev. Frederick Whitmore Holland, Evesham; their son, Robert Holland-Martin (1872–1944); his sister Julia Holland-Martin (1873–1955), wife of Algernon Cockburn Rayner-Wood, Singleton Lodge, Lancashire; their nephew Edward Holland-Martin (1900–1958), London; sold, Christie's, London, Nov. 20–21, 1958, lot 82 (attributed to Lorenzo di Credi). Colnaghi, London. Private collection; sold, Christie's, New York, Jan. 12, 1995, lot 9 (as Federico Barocci). Yvonne Tan Bunzl, London, 1996. C.G. Boerner/Artemis, New York, 2002; sold to Richard and Mary L. Gray, Chicago, Apr. 2004 (promised to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019); given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2022.
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, Gray Collection: Seven Centuries of Art, Sept. 25, 2010–Jan. 2, 2011, cat. 9 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection, Jan. 25–Oct. 12, 2020; traveled to Berkeley, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Aug. 4–Nov. 28, 2021.
Publications
Harald Olsen, "Federico Barocci" (Munksgaard, 1962), pp. 8, 55, 150, 188, under no. 16, pl. 21a. Andrea Emiliani, "Federico Barocci (Urbino 1535-1612)", 2nd ed. (Nuova Alfa, 1985), vol. 1, p. 76, figs. 71-72. Andrea Emiliani "Federico Barocci (Urbino, 1535-1612", 3rd ed. (Il Lavoro, 2008), vol. 1, p. 184, no. 20.25.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Federico Barocci / Italian, 1528–1612
- Date
- c. 1567
- Medium
- Black chalk, with stumping (recto), and black chalk, with touches of red chalk (verso), on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 23.1 × 15.9 cm (9 1/8 × 6 5/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- drawings (visual works)
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
- Accession no.
- 2022.65
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