About This Artwork

Federico Barocci
Italian, c. 1535-1612

Head of the Swooning Virgin: Study for the Deposition, 1568/69

Black chalk and charcoal, with stumping and traces of white chalk, on tan laid paper, pieced and incised
294 x 239 mm
Inscribed recto, on former mount (GCI): "F. Baroccio / P.M. from sale of Chesney Collection at Sothebys-1885"
The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922.5406R

McCullagh & Giles 15

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Newark Museum, "Old Master Drawings," March 17-May 22, 1960, cat. 29 (ill.).

Detroit Institute of Arts, "Art In Italy: 1600-1700," 1965, pp. 73-74, cat. 64.

The Cleveland Museum of Art, "Federico Barocci: Selected Drawings and Prints," February 15-March 26, 1978, pp. 49-50, cat. 22 (ill.), cat. by Edmund P. Pillsbury and Louise S. Richards, also traveled to Yale University Art Gallery, April 11-June 4, 1978.

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, "Italian Drawings in The Art Institute of Chicago," cat. 31, pl. 34, cat. by Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, 1979-80.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago," April 10-June 22, 1997.

Publication History

Ulrich Middeldorf, "Old Master Drawings from the Fifteenth through the Eighteenth Centuries: Two Hundred Examples from the Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, Selected and Described by Ulrich Middeldorf," unpublished manuscript, Department of Prints and Drawings, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1938/40, no. 106.

Ulrich Middeldorf, "Three Italian Drawings in Chicago," in Art in America 27 (1939), pp. 11-14, fig. 1.

Hans Tietze, European Master Drawings in the United States (New York, 1947) pp. 94-95, no. 47 (ill.).

Harald Olsen, "Federico Barocci: A Critical Study in Italian Cinquecento Painting," Figura 6 (1955), p. 120.

Harald Olsen, "Federico Baroccio", Figura 6, 2nd ed.(Copenhagen, 1962), pp. 152-53, no. 21.

Frederick Cummings, Art in Italy, 1600-1700, exh. cat. (Detroit, 1965), pp. 73-74, no. 64.

Graham Smith, "Federico Barocci at Cleveland and New Haven," Burlington Magazine 120 (1978), p. 333, fig. 107.

Edmund P. Pillsbury and Louise S. Richards, The Graphic Art of Federico Barocci, exh. cat. (New Haven, 1978), pp. 49-50, no. 22 (ill.).

Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Italian Drawings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago and London, 1979), p. 38, no. 31, pl. 34.

Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings of the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries, compiled by Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Sandra Haller Olsen (Chicago and London), p. 19, no. 1C4 (ill. microfiche).

Suzanne Folds McCullagh, "Serendipity in a Solander Box: A Recently Discovered Pastel and Chalk Drawing by Federico Barocci," Italian Drawings at The Art Institute: Recent Acquisitions and Discoveries, The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, vol. 17, no. 1 (1991), p. 65, fig. 17.

Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura M. Giles, Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1997), pp. 15-17, no. 15 (ill.).

Ownership History

Edward Cheney (1803-1884), London (inscription; Lugt 444); sold, Sotheby's, London, April 29-May 5, 1885, Edward Cheney sale, part of lot 932 (as Baroccio and others, Studies of Heads); Sir John C. Robinson (1924-1913), London (Lugt 1433) [according to Sotheby's annotated sale catalogue]. Unidentified script P.M.. Sold, Puttick & Simpson, London, July 24, 1913, part of lot 186, to William F. E. Gurley (1854-1943), Chicago, his stamp recto, lower left, in black; given to the Art Institute, 1922.