Two Ecclesiastics: Study for the Disputation on the Holy Sacrament

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Prints and Drawings

1606/10

Francesco Vanni
Italian, 1563-1610

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Francesco Vanni
Title: Two Ecclesiastics: Study for the Disputation on the Holy Sacrament
Place: Italy (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1606–1610
Medium: Black chalk, heightened with white chalk, on blue laid paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, lower left, in pen and brown ink: "V.S." (crossed out) /" F:V:"
Dimensions: 25.5 × 17 cm (10 1/16 × 6 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Joseph Winterbotham, Jr.
Reference Number: 1954.339R
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Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings of the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries (Chicago, 1979), p. 130, nos. 4E3 and 4E4, as by Agostino Ciampelli.
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. 245-46, no. 319 (ill.).

Chicago, The Arts Club, “Exhibition of the Joseph Winterbotham Collection,” December 9-31, 1936, cat. 66, as Giovanni Tiepolo, “Study for Mural.”
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago,” April 10-July 22, 1997
Yale University Art Gallery, “Franceso Vanni: Art in Late Renaissance Siena”, September 27, 2013 - January 5, 2014, cat. 76 pp. 207-211; cat. by John Marciari et. al.

Count Rey de Villette, Boulogne-sur-Seine [Lugt Suppl. 2200a]; sold, Hollstein & Puppel, Berlin, May 4-6, 1931, lot 1304, as by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Winterbotham, Jr., Burlington Vt., by December 1936 [Chicago 1936]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1954.

McCullagh & Giles 319

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