Marriage of the Virgin

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Prints and Drawings

c. 1640

Jacques Stella
French, 1596-1657

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Jacques Stella
Title: Marriage of the Virgin
Place: France (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.: 1635–1645
Medium: Pen and black ink, with brush and gray and pale brown wash and graphite, on pieced cream laid paper (two figures before column are cut from a similar paper and inserted over a slightly smaller hole in the primary support)
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, upper right, in graphite: "6"
Dimensions: 36.7 × 26.7 cm (14 1/2 × 10 9/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 2013.1029
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Shelley Perlove and George S. Keyes (editors).
Seventeenth-Century European Drawings in Midwestern Collections (University of Notre Dame Press, 2014), pp. 226, 268 no. 106, 267, 270 (ill.), 271.

Art Institute of Chicago, “Gifts of a Lifetime. Old Master Drawings,” Dec. 11, 1998-Mar. 28, 1999, checklist no. 15.

Claudine Bouzonnet-Stella (the artist’s niece); by descent to Michel de Masso. Gaetano Minossi Romano, by 1756. Thomas Talbot of Margam (1747-1806) [according to London 1986 auc. cat.]. Possibly Lady Blythswood (died 1958); by descent toher grandson, Christopher Methuen-Campbell (died 1998). Sold, Christie’s, London, Dec. 9, 1986, lot 127, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA.; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.

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