Antique Carved Marble Candelabra Base

Inscriptions

Inscribed, lower right, brown ink: probably “Biano;” inscribed, lower left, brown ink: Ponino; inscribed, lower center of mount, brown ink: probably by Don Gaspar Mendez de Haro y Guzman, “Gio. Benedo. Castillione.”

Provenance

Don Gaspar de Haro y Guzmán, 7th Marquis of Carpio (1629–1687) [according to Galerie Tarantino 2011 exh. cat.]. Possibly Arnold Blome (1894–1972), Bremen [stamp (L.4042 or 4043), recto lower right, in brown and verso lower center, in brown]. Sold by Galerie Tarantino, Paris, through François Borne to the Gray Collection Trust, Chicago, May 2011; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.

Exhibition history

Paris, Galerie Tarantino, Peindre à Rome: Tableaux et dessins des XVIIème et XVIIIème siècles, 2011, pp. 30–31, cat. 1 (ill.).

Quick Overview

Artist: Andrea di Lione / Italian, 1610–1685
Date: 1642/44 or 1647/51
Medium: Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, over graphite, on cream laid paper laid down on off-white laid paper
Dimensions: Primary support: 23.4 × 17.1 cm (9 1/4 × 6 3/4 in.); Secondary support: 26 × 19 cm (10 1/4 × 7 1/2 in.)
Type: Drawing
Classification: pen and ink drawings
Place: Italy
Department: Prints and Drawings
Credit line: Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
Accession no.: 2019.881

More by Andrea di Lione in museum collections

Tobit Burying the Dead
Andrea di Lione
1640s · Painting
Public collection via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00015278

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.