About This Artwork
Denys Calvaert
Flemish, c. 1540-1619
Saint Francis of Assisi Adoring the Virgin and Child1607
Black chalk on lunette-shaped blue laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper, edge-mounted on cream wove card
510 x 307 mm (max.)
Inscribed verso, upper left, in graphite: "101"; lower left, in graphite: "D.6924/2"
Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, 1998.99
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
London, Faerber and Maison, "Old Master Drawings and Paintings Presented by Yvonne Tan Bunzl," 1970, cat. 15 (ill.).
Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum, Harvard
University, "Italian Drawings and Prints around 1600," 1974–75.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Gifts of a Lifetime," 1998–99, checklist 9.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 32, cat. 7 (ill.).
Publication History
D. Stephen Pepper, The Bob Jones University Collection of Religious Art: Italian Paintings (Bob Jones University, 1984), p. 39, under cat. 36.1.
David H. Steel, Jr., Baroque Paintings from the Bob Jones University Collection, exh. cat. (North Carolina Museum of Art, 1984), p. 34, under cat. 6, fig. 4.
Teréz Gerszi, “Un Dessin récemment indentifié de Denys Calvaert,” Bulletin du Musée Hongrois des Beaux-Arts 64 (1985), pp. 35–42, fig. 19.
Giuliano Briganti et al., The Age of Correggio and the Carracci: Emilian Painting of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, exh. cat. (Washington, D.C., 1986–87), p. 78, under cat.17.
Simone Twiehaus, Dionisio Calvaert, um 1540–1619: Die Altarwerke (Reimer, 2002), p. 222, under cat. A26, fig. 57.
Ownership History
Jonathan Richardson, Jr. (died 1771) [his stamp (Lugt 2170) recto, lower right, in black]. Sold by Yvonne Tan Bunzl, London, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, 1971; given to the Art Institute, 1998.