About This Artwork
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Italian, 1598-1680
Putti Carrying the Cross (recto)1672/75
Charcoal and black chalk, with stumping (recto); black chalk (verso) on ivory laid paper
275 x 202 mm
Margaret Day Blake Endowment and Harold Joachim Memorial Endowment Fund, 1993.173
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
Paris, University of Notre Dame, The Snite Museum of Art, "Rome in the Age of Bernini," November 15-29, 1998.
Publication History
Jennifer Tonkovich, "Two Studies for the Gesú and a ‘quarantore’ Design by Bernini," Burlington Magazine (January 1998), pp. 34-37 (ill.).
Ownership History
Dr. Alfredo Viggiano (died 1948), Venice [Lugt 191a]. Sold, Christie's, London, December 19, 1991, lot 139. Sold by Thomas Williams Fine Art Ltd., London, to the Art Institute, 1993.