About This Artwork

Francesco Vanni
Italian, 1563-1610

Two Ecclesiastics: Study for the Disputation on the Holy Sacrament, 1606/1610

Black chalk, heightened with white chalk, on blue laid paper
255 x 170 mm
Inscribed recto, lower left, in pen and brown ink: "V.S." (crossed out) /" F:V:"
Bequest of Mr. Joseph Winterbotham, Jr., 1954.339R

McCullagh & Giles 319

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Chicago, The Arts Club, "Exhibition of the Joseph Winterbotham Collection," December 9-31, 1936, cat. 66, as Giovanni Tiepolo, "Study for Mural."

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

Publication History

Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings of the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries (Chicago, 1979), p. 130, nos. 4E3 and 4E4, as by Agostino Ciampelli.

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. 245-246, no. 319 (ill.).

Ownership History

Count Rey de Villette, Boulogne-sur-Seine [Lugt Suppl. 2200a]; sold, Hollstein & Puppel, Berlin, May 4-6, 1931, lot 1304, as by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Winterbotham, Jr., Burlington Vt., by December 1936 [Chicago 1936]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1954.