Madonna and Child with Two Angels

Prints and Drawings

c. 1752

Attributed to Sir Joshua Reynolds (English, 1723-1792)
or after Antonio Allegri, called Correggio (Italian, c. 1489-1534)

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Sir Joshua Reynolds
Title: Madonna and Child with Two Angels
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.: 1747–1757
Medium: Black chalk on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, lower left, in pen and brown ink: "a. Coregio" (...)
Dimensions: 14.5 × 18.9 cm (5 3/4 × 7 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1922.462
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Giovanna Perini, “Sir Joshua Reynolds and Italian Art and Art Literature: A Study of the Sketchbooks in the British Museum and in Sir John Soane’s Museum,” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 51 (1988), pp. 141-68.
Giovanni Perini, “Sir Joshua Reynolds a Bologna (1752). Considerazioni preliminari ad un’edizione critica dei taccuini di viaggio basate sul taccuino conservato al Sir John Soane’s Museum di Londra,” Storia Dell’Arte 73 (1991), pp. 361-412.
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. 330 and 332, no. 474 (ill.).

Sir Joshua Reynolds [stamp (Lugt 2364), recto, lower right, in black]. N. Hone [stamp (Lugt 2793), recto, lower right, in black]. A. M. Champernowne [script (Lugt 153), recto, lower right, in pen and black ink]; sold, Sotheby’s, London, Feb. 1, 1911, part of lot 253 (as Correggio), to Vallentin, London. William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower left, in black]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922 [stamp (Lugt 1230b), verso, center on mount, in black].

McCullagh & Giles 474

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