Two Female Figures with Child

Prints and Drawings

1530/45

Ascribed to Valerio Belli
Italian, c. 1468-1546

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Valerio Belli
Title: Two Female Figures with Child
Origin: Italy
Date: 1530–1545
Medium: Red chalk with brush and brown wash, on buff laid paper, squared in black chalk, laid down on ivory laid card
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, lower center on mount, in pen and brown ink (in J. Richardson, Sr.s' hand); "Rafaelle. cosi stano notato."; lower center on mount, in pen and red ink: "Valerio Vicentino."; inscribed verso, upper center on mount, in pen and brown ink (in J. Richardson, Sr.s' hand: "T.46/C.54./La.39./k.and B/No. 11"; lower left, in pen and brown ink: "14 H."
Dimensions: 177 × 97 mm
Credit Line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1922.5635
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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), p. 31, no. 30 (ill.).

Peter Lely [stamp (Lugt 2092), recto, lower right, in black]. John Richardson, Sr. [stamp (Lugt 2183), recto, lower right, in black and script (Lugt 2984), verso, upper center on mount, in pen and brown ink]. Earl Spencer [stamp (Lugt 1530), verso, lower right, in black]. John Tetlow [stamp (Lugt 2868), recto, lower right, in black]. William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamps (Lugt 5308), recto, lower left and verso, center on mount, 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]

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