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Study for the Allegorical Figure of Earthly Harmony
Inscriptions
Inscribed, recto on mount, upper left, in graphite: "85"; lower center, in erased graphite: "Benedetto Luti" [within ink framing lines]; lower center, in graphite: "Benedetto Luti" [outside ink framing lines]; lower right, in red chalk: "24"; lower right, in pen and brown ink: "No 39"; lower right corner, in graphite: "94"; verso on mount, lower center, in graphite: "Mrs. Rayner Wood, Old Colwell, Malvern."
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 125 (as Benedetto Luti). Sold, Sotheby's New York, Jan. 25, 2006, lot 70. Sold by Salamander Fine Arts, London, to Richard and Mary L. Gray, Chicago, Mar. 3, 2006 (promised to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019); given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2022.
Exhibition history
London, Royal Academy of Arts, Exhibition of Seventeenth Century Art in Europe, 1938, cat. 482 (as Benedetto Luti). Art Institute of Chicago, Gray Collection: Seven Centuries of Art, Sept. 25, 2010–Jan. 2, 2011, cat. 31 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection, Jan. 25–Oct. 12, 2020.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Domenico Maria Canuti / Italian, 1625–1684
- Date
- c. 1677
- Medium
- Red, black, and dark red chalk, with stumping, heightened with white chalk, on gray laid paper, laid down on cream laid laminated card
- Dimensions
- 37 × 29.1 cm (14 5/8 × 11 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- chalk
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
- Accession no.
- 2022.68
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Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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