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Allegory of the Elevation of Cardinal Deacon Oddone Colonna to the Papal Chair as Pope Martin V
Inscriptions
Inscribed, lower left: "Cav': Benedetto Luti fece in Roma."
Provenance
Francesco Maria Niccolò Gabburri (1676–1742), Rome, by 1722 [his inventory dated 1722]. Sold, Christie’s, New York, Jan. 28, 2000, lot 33. Private collection; sold, Sotheby’s, New York, Jan. 30, 2013, lot 243, to the Gray Collection Trust, Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.
Exhibition history
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection", January 25 - May 10, 2020, pp, 36-37, cat. 13, p. 136, GC 58, traveled to New York, The Morgan Library, February 19 - June 6, 2021, and Berkeley CA, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, August 4 - November 28, 2021.
Publications
Giuseppe Campori, Raccolta di cataloghi ed inventari inediti (C. Vincenzi, 1870), pp. 521–22. Rodolfo Maffeis, Benedetto Luti, l’ultimo maestro (Mandragora, 2012), pp. 286, 288, 289; and pl. 34 (color ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Benedetto Luti / Italian, 1666–1724
- Date
- 1700
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, over black and red chalk, heightened with white opaque watercolor, on joined sheets of laid paper, mounted to paperboard
- Dimensions
- 49.5 × 38.6 cm (19 1/2 × 15 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- drawings (visual works)
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
- Accession no.
- 2019.882
More by Benedetto Luti in museum collections
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