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An Angel in Flight
Inscriptions
Inscribed lower right: “Joseppo d’Arpinas”; lower left “1610 "
Provenance
Possibly Jan Six (1618–1700), Amsterdam; sold, possibly Amsterdam, April 6, 1702, part of lot 3. Lambert Hermansz ten Kate (1674–1731), Amsterdam; sold, Amsterdam, June 16, 1732, album A, no. 8, for 30 guilders to Antoni Rutgers (1695–1778), Amsterdam; sold, Amsterdam, December 1, 1778, album I, no. 521, for 8 guilders to Cornelis Ploos van Amstel (1726–1798), Amsterdam; sold, Amsterdam, March 3, 1800, album AA, no. 39. Baron Roger Portalis (1841–1912), Paris [Lugt 2232]. Léon Voillemot (1881–1949), Paris [Lugt 789d]. Galerie Pierre Gaubert, Paris, to a private collection, Brussels. With W.M. Brady & Co., New York, by 2006 [Master Drawings 1520-1890, 2006, cat. 8]; sold to Herbert Kasper (1926–2020), New York, 2006; sold by Christies, New York, Oct. 14, 2021, lot 23, to the Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibition history
Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, From Raphael to Carracci: The Art of Papal Rome, 2009, cat. 148 (ill.). New York, The Morgan Library and Museum, Mannerism and Modernism: The Kasper Collection of Drawings and Photographs, 2011, cat. 30 (ill.).
Publications
R. Weigel, Die Werke der Maler in ihren Handzeichnungen. Beschreibendes Verzeichniss der in Kupfer gestochenen, lithographirten und photographirten Facsimiles von Originalzeichnungen grosser Meister (Leipzig, 1865), no. 98 (ill.). J. G. van Gelder, ‘Lambert ten Kate als Kunstverzamelaar’, Nederlands kunsthistorisch jaarboek, XXI (1970), p. 173 (ill.). J. G. van Gelder and I. Jost, Jan de Bisschop and his Icones & Paradigmata. Classical Antiquities and Italian Drawings for Artistic Instruction in Seventeenth Century Holland (Doornspijk, 1985), pp. 234–35. Barbara Gaehtgens, Adriaen van der Werff, 1659-1722 (Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1987), p. 333. M. S. Bolzoni (Rome, 2013), no. 189 (ill.). H. Röttgen, Cavalier Giuseppe Cesari d’Arpino. Die Zeichnungen/ I disegni (Stuttgart, 2013), II:no. 385 (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Giuseppe Cesari, called Il Cavaliere d’Arpino / Italian, 1568–1640
- Date
- c. 1599-1600
- Medium
- Black chalk with red chalk on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 39.7 × 35.5 cm (15 11/16 × 14 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- prints and drawing
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Endowment Fund
- Accession no.
- 2021.414
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Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00006226
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