About This Artwork

Gian Giacomo Sementi, attributed to
Italian, 1583–c. 1640

Pomona, 1617/18

Black chalk with stumping and black chalk wash on ten sheets of tan laid paper pieced onto secondary support
1,768 x 884 mm
Inscribed recto, lower center, in black chalk: "Guido Reni"
Ada Turnbull Hertle Fund, 1961.793

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Italian Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," 1979-1980, cat. 54, cat. by Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh; traveled to Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art.

Publication History

Konrad Oberhuber, "Charles Loeser as Collector of Drawings," Apollo 107 (June, 1978), p. 464.

Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings from the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries (Chicago, 1979), p. 154, no. 5D6.

Stephen Pepper, "Scuola di Guido Reni, Book Review," Burlington Magazine (September 1994), p. 629, fig. 43.

Marina Cellini, Simone Cantarini nelle Marche (Venice, 1997), p. 173, no. 32.

Ownership History

Charles Loeser, Florence [see Joachim 1979]. Sold by Durlacher Brothers to the Art Institute, 1961.