St. Benedict Gesturing to the Left: Study for the Coronation of the Virgin

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Prints and Drawings

1520/23

Antonio Allegri, called Correggio
Italian, 1489?-1534

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Antonio da Correggio
Title: St. Benedict Gesturing to the Left: Study for the Coronation of the Virgin
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.: 1520–1523
Medium: Red chalk on cream laid paper prepared with pink wash (diluted red chalk wash), laid down on cream laid card
Dimensions: 15.5 × 11.9 cm (6 1/8 × 4 11/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Anne Searle Bent
Reference Number: 1996.337
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Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura M. Giles, Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1997), p. 97, no. 122 (ill.).
Treasures from The Art Institute of Chicago, selected by James N. Wood, with commentaries by Debra N. Mancoff (Chicago, 2000), p. 91 (ill.).

The Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago,” April 10-July 22, 1997.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Capturing the Sublime: Italian Drawings of the Renaissance and Baroque”, March 26-July 8, 2012, pl 7, pp. 34-35, cat. by Suzanne Folds McCullagh, et. al.

Unidentifed collector [unidentified stamp]. Charles Ludovic Lindsay (died 1925), London [New York 1994 auc. cat.]. Dr. Otto Wertheimer (died 1972), Paris [New York 1994 auc. cat.]. Private collection, Switzerland; sold, Christie’s, New York, January 11, 1994, lot 162. Given by Anne Searle Bent, Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1996.

McCullagh & Giles 122

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