Pietà

Prints and Drawings

n.d.

Attributed to Luca Cambiaso
Italian, 1527-1585

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Luca Cambiaso
Title: Pietà
Place: Italy (Artist's nationality)
Date: 1567–1585
Medium: Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white, on blue wove paper, laid down on ivory wove paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, lower left, in pen and black ink: "33"; upper center on mount, in pen and brown ink: "Lucha Cangiasi no. 68"; inscribed verso, lower right on mount, in pen and red ink: "Lot 1558"; lower right in mount, in pen and brown ink: "225"
Dimensions: 25.8 × 19.5 cm (10 3/16 × 7 11/16 in.)
Credit Line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1922.13
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Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura M. Giles, Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1997), p. 58, no. 68 (ill.).

Sir Joshua Reynolds [stamp (Lugt 2364), recto, lower left, in black]. A. M. Champernowne [script (Lugt 153), recto, lower left, in pen and brown ink]. Sold, Puttick & Simpson, London, March 27, 1914, to William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [according to Gurley index card; stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower right, and verso, lower center, in black]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922 [stamp (Lugt 1230b), verso, center, in black].

McCullagh & Giles 68

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