Design for Frontispiece to the Seven Virtues

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Prints and Drawings

1598

Joannes Stradanus, called Giovanni Stradano
Flemish, 1523-1605

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Jan van der Straet
Title: Design for Frontispiece to the Seven Virtues
Place: Flanders (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.: 1598
Medium: Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, with touches of opaque white watercolor, over traces of black chalk, on cream laid paper, incised for transfer
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, lower left, in brown ink: "IOANNES/ STRADANUS/INVENTOR/ FLORENTIAL (final two words obscured with white heightening); lower center, in brown ink: "1598"; lower right, in brown ink: "PHLS GALLE”; verso, upper and lower margins, in graphite: "Jan Van Der Straet/ 1533/ 36–1605"; center, in graphite: "5 ⅛ x 7/ 90"; lower margin, in pen and black ink: "Jan Van Der Straet/ 1533 (or) 36–1605"
Dimensions: 17.8 × 13 cm (7 1/16 × 5 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1922.2039
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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. 230–231, no. 297 (ill).
 The New Hollstein Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts 1450–1700, Johannes Stradanus, 3 vols, Compiled by Marjolein Leesberg, ed. Huigen Leeflang (Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2008, in cooperation with the Rijksprentenkabinet, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam) vol. II, no. 263, p. 230.

Art Institute of Chicago, Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings in the Art Institute of Chicago, Apr. 12–June 22, 1997, no cat.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age”, September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 178, 181 (ill.), 317, cat. 63, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.

J.Pz. Zoomer (1641–1724) [stamp (Lugt 1511), recto, lower right, in brown]. John Jacob Lindman (1854–1926) [stamp (Lugt 1479A), recto, lower right, in black]. William F. E. Gurley (1870–1938) [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 center, in black].

McCullagh & Giles 297

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