Study for Mercury

Prints and Drawings

1613/14

Giacomo Cavedone
Italian, 1577-1660

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Artist: Jacopo Cavedone
Title: Study for Mercury
Origin: Italy
Date: 1613–1614
Medium: Black chalk, heightened with white chalk, on tan laid paper, laid down on brownish-gray laid paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, upper left, in pen and brown ink: "22"
Dimensions: 420 × 260 mm
Credit Line: The Charles Deering Collection
Reference Number: 1927.7665

Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, “Bolognese Drawings in North American Collections,” 1982, cat. 42 (ill.), as Francesco Albani.

Charles Deering (1852–1927), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 516)]; by descent to his daughters, Mrs. Chauncey McCormick (née Marion Deering; 1886–1965), Chicago and Mrs. Richard Ely Danielson (née Barbara Deering; 1885–1957), Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1927.

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