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Allegorical Subject (Angel above Two Sibyls)

Luca Cambiaso · 1560/65

Provenance

Ownership history

Paul Sandby [stamp (Lugt 2112), recto, lower left, in black]. Frederick R. Aikman; sold, Puttick & Simpson, London, Mar. 14, 1913, William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower right 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].

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Art Institute of Chicago, "The Leonora Hall Gurley Collection of Drawings: Early Italian," March 5-April 30, 1922, cat. 3 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, "A Century of Progress: Exhibion of Paintings and Sculpture," June 1-November 1, 1933, cat. 799 (as 'Allegory of History').
Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago," April 10-July 22, 1997.

Literature

William McCallin McKee, "The Gurley Collection of Drawings," Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 16, no. 2 (1922), pp. 25-27 (ill.).
Licia Ragghianti Collobi, "Luca Cambiaso Disegnatore," Critica d'Arte 3 (1954), pp. 239-62.
James Watrous, The Craft of Old-Master Drawings (Madison, 1967), pp. 74-75 (ill.) (as 'Three Figures').
Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Italian Drawings in the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), pp. 34-35, no. 25, pl. 32.
Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings of the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries, The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), p. 30, no. 1E4.
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. 52-53, no. 59 (ill.).

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