Angel Playing a Flute

Prints and Drawings

1580

Circle of Giuseppe Cesari, called Il Cavalier d’Arpino
Italian, 1568-1640

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Artist: Circle of Giuseppe Cesari
Title: Angel Playing a Flute
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.: 1580
Medium: Black and red chalk, with traces of pen and brown ink, on buff laid paper, incised
Inscriptions: inscribed verso, lower center on partial mount, in pen and black ink (in "Gurley" hand): "Giusepe Cesari - 1568 - 1640. / ("Il Cavaliere d'Arpino")"; inscribed recto of former mount (according to Gurley Card Index): "From the Wellesley Coll / Cesari (Giuseppe), called Il Cavaliere d'Arpino or Le Josepin, born 1560 according to certain biographers, in 1568 according to other authors, died 3d of July 1640, - (Roman School.) Pupil of his father and of Cristofano Roncalli"
Dimensions: 20.5 × 13.6 cm (8 1/8 × 5 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1922.25
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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), pp. 83-84, no. 106 (ill.).

Rev. Dr. H. Wellesley [see Lugt 1384; according to inscription, on face of former mount]; sold, Sotheby’s London, June 30, 1866, part of lot 949 (as Cav. d’Arpino), to [Urban M.] Noseda [see Lugt 1948. Sold, Puttick & Simpson, London, Dec. 4, 1914, to William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower right, and verso, 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 106

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