Angel Holding 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 Holding a Flute
Origin: Italy
Date: 1580
Medium: Black and red chalk, on buff laid paper, incised
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, upper right, in pen and brown ink: "Cr d'Arpino"; lower right, in pen and brown ink: "G C 1580"; on face of former mount (according to Gurley Card Index): "From the Wellesley Coll"
Dimensions: 203 × 137 mm
Credit Line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1922.26

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. 84-85, no. 107 (ill.).

The Art Institute of Chicago, “Catalogue of the Gurley Collection,” 1922, no. 10 (as Giuseppe Cesari).

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 [stamps (Lugt 5308), recto, lower left, and verso, lower left, in black]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922 [stamp (Lugt 1230b), verso, lower left, in black].

McCullagh & Giles 107

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