Saint Francis of Assisi Adoring the Virgin and Child

Prints and Drawings

1607

Denys Calvaert
Flemish, c. 1540-1619

This monumental drawing shows Denys Calvaert’s nearly final conception for an altarpiece. The artist made a few intriguing changes before completing the painting. He replaced a child in the lower left of the drawing with an older saint figure, covered the Christ Child’s genitalia, and shifted Saint Francis’s head toward the center of the composition.

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Denys Calvaert
Title: Saint Francis of Assisi Adoring the Virgin and Child
Place: Flanders (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.: 1607
Medium: Black chalk on blue laid paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed verso, upper left, in graphite: "101"; lower left, in graphite: "D.6924/2"
Dimensions: 52.1 × 31.2 cm (20 9/16 × 12 5/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1998.99
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D. Stephen Pepper, The Bob Jones University Collection of Religious Art: Italian Paintings (Greenville, SC: Bob Jones University, 1984), p. 39, under cat. 36.1.
David H. Steel, Jr., Baroque Paintings from the Bob Jones University Collection, exh. cat. (Raleigh, NC: 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.: National gallery of Art, 1986–87), p. 78, under cat.17.
Simone Twiehaus, Dionisio Calvaert, um 1540–1619: Die Altarwerke (Berlin: Reimer, 2002), p. 222, under cat. A26, fig. 57.
Mary Vaccaro, “A New Identified Drawing by Denys Calvaert in the Uffizi,” Burlington Magazine 158 (March, 2016), p. 193 (ill).

London, Faerber and Maison, Old Master Drawings and Paintings Presented by Yvonne Tan Bunzl, April 6–25, 1970, cat. 15 (ill.).
Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Italian Drawings and Prints around 1600, Dec. 9, 1974–Feb. 15, 1975.
Art Institute of Chicago, Gifts of a Lifetime: 49 Old Masters Drawings from the Dorothy Braude Edinburg Collection, Dec. 11,1998–Mar. 28,1999, checklist 9.
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.).
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age”, September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 85 (ill.), 86-87, 292-93 cat. 26, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.

Jonathan Richardson, Jr. (1694–1771) [stamp (Lugt 2170), recto, lower right, in black]. Yvonne Tan Bunzl, London, by 1970 [London, 1970]; sold to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, Mass., Feb. 1971; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1998.

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