Sibyl in the Clouds

Prints and Drawings

after 1570

After Luca Cambiaso
Italian, 1527-1585

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Luca Cambiaso
Title: Sibyl in the Clouds
Origin: Italy
Date: 1568–1572
Medium: Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, on ivory laid paper, squared in red chalk, tipped onto ivory laid paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, lower right on mount, in pen and brown ink: "L: Cangiasio"; inscribed verso, lower center on mount, in graphite: "Female Figure Reading / Cangiagio"
Dimensions: 337 × 262 mm
Credit Line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1922.572
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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. 328-30, no. 463 (ill.).

Walter T. Spencer, London, England [according to Gurley Card Index]. William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower right, in black]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922 [stamp (Lugt 1230b), verso, lower left and center on mount, in black].

McCullagh & Giles 463

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