The Coronation of the Virgin

Prints and Drawings

1575

Ercole Setti
Italian, 1530–1617

This finished presentation drawing, executed in painterly washes on blue paper, has been recently identified as preparatory for an altarpiece in the Jesuit Church of the Annunziata in Modena. Squared in graphite, the elaborate and pietistic composition would have been transferred point for point to the painted support. It is undoubtedly one of the masterpieces of Setti, an obscure and provincial artist, and reflects his familiarity with the Mannerist artistic vocabulary prevalent in the Counter-Reformation era.

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Artist: Ercole Setti
Title: 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.: Made 1575
Medium: Pen and brown iron-gall ink and brush and brown wash, heightened with white gouache, over traces of graphite, on blue laid paper, squared in graphite for transfer, with extraneous traces of colored oil paints
Inscriptions: Inscribed verso, center, in graphite: "40" [encircled]; lower left, in graphite: "910305/7"; upper left on mount, in graphite: "40" ; upper left on mount, in pen and brown ink: "40"
Dimensions: 18.4 × 20.3 cm (7 1/4 × 8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 2013.1026
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Angelo Mazza, “La pittura a Modena a Reggio Emilia nella seconda metà del Cinquecento,” in La Pittura in Emilia e in Romagna, Il Cinquecento, vol. 2 (Electa, 1996), pp. 185–202 (ill.).
Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), p. 30, cat. 5 (ill.).

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. 30, cat. 5 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, “The Thrill of the Chase: Drawings for the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection,” Mar. 15-June 15, 2014, no cat.

Sold, Christie’s, New York, Jan. 28, 2000, lot 8, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.

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