Dead Christ Supported by Holy Women and Angels

Prints and Drawings

n.d.

Circle of Lelio Orsi
Italian, 1508 or 1511–1587

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Circle of Lelio Orsi
Title: Dead Christ Supported by Holy Women and Angels
Origin: Italy
Date: 1531–1587
Medium: Pen and brown ink on blue laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed verso, upper left on mount, in pen and brown ink: "Correggio"
Dimensions: 140 × 100 mm
Credit Line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1922.460
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Thomas Worthen, “A Drawing of the Dead Christ by Lelio Orsi,” The Register of the Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, Lawrence 5 (1977), pp. 4-13.
Joseph Hoffman, “Lelio Orsi si è dato ai Tedeschi,” Acta Historiae Atrium Acamiae Scientiarium Hungaricae 31 (1985), pp. 31-41.
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. 149-50, no. 192 (ill.).

Sold, Puttick & Simpson, London, Aug. 6-7, 1914, part of lot 434, as “Figure subjects by Correggio,” to William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower right, in black]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922 [stamp (Lugt 1230b), verso, center on mount, in black].

McCullagh & Giles 192

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