Object Information

Baccio Bandinelli
Italian, 1493-1560

The First Family Before a Shelter, 1547/1548

Pen and brown ink on buff laid paper, laid down on cream wove card
379 x 278 mm
Restricted gift of Anne Searle Bent, 1992.132

McCullagh & Giles 11

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

New York, Margot Gordon's, "Old Master Drawings," 1992, cat. 5, January 15-March 30, 1992; traveled to Rome, Galleria Marcello Aldega, April 15-May 31, 1992.

The Art Institute of Chicago, August 14, 1994-January 31, 1995.

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

The Detroit Institute of Arts, "The Medici, Michelangelo, and the Art of Late Renaissance Florence," March 16- June 8, 2003, no. 151; also traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, November 9, 2002-February 2, 2003.

Publication History

Roger Ward, Baccio Bandinelli, 1493-1560: Drawings from British Collections (Cambridge, 1988), p. 70.

Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura M. Giles, Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1997), p. 12, no. 11, pl. 1.

Ownership History

Everhard Jabach (died 1695), Paris [Lugt suppl. 960a and 2959]; by descent to his grandson, Gerhard Michael Jabach; sold, Amsterdam, October 1753, Jabach sale, lot 2, to Michael Oudaan [letter from Bernadette Py of April 4, 2000 in curatorial file]; sold, Amsterdam, 1766, Oudaan sale, lot 23. Alphonse Wyatt Thibaudeau (died c. 1892), Paris and London [Lugt 2473]. Sir John Charles Robinson (died 1913) [Lugt 1433]. Émile-Louis Calando (died before 1899), Paris; his son, Emile Calando (died 1953), Paris [Lugt suppl. 426b]. Sold, Christie’s, London, April 12, 1983, lot 30 to the William H. Schab Gallery, New York [notes from Roger Ward in curatorial file]; sold to Mr. and Mrs. Martin Lederman, New York [according to Ward]. Sold by Aldega/Gordon, New York, to the Art Institute, 1992.