Antique Carved Marble Candelabra Base

Prints and Drawings

1642/44 or 1647/51

Andrea di Lione
Italian, 1610–1685

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Artist: Andrea de Leone
Title: Antique Carved Marble Candelabra Base
Origin: Italy
Date: 1642–1644
Medium: Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, over graphite, on cream laid paper laid down on off-white laid paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed, lower right, brown ink: probably “Biano;” inscribed, lower left, brown ink: Ponino; inscribed, lower center of mount, brown ink: probably by Don Gaspar Mendez de Haro y Guzman, “Gio. Benedo. Castillione.”
Dimensions: 234 × 171 mm (primary support); 260 × 190 mm (secondary support)
Credit Line: Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
Reference Number: 2019.881

Paris, Galerie Tarantino, Peindre à Rome: Tableaux et dessins des XVIIème et XVIIIème siècles, 2011, pp. 30–31, cat. 1 (ill.).

Don Gaspar de Haro y Guzmán, 7th Marquis of Carpio (1629–1687) [according to Galerie Tarantino 2011 exh. cat.]. Possibly Arnold Blome (1894–1972), Bremen [stamp (L.4042 or 4043), recto lower right, in brown and verso lower center, in brown]. Sold by Galerie Tarantino, Paris, through François Borne to the Gray Collection Trust, Chicago, May 2011; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.

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