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Allegory of the Elevation of Cardinal Deacon Oddone Colonna to the Papal Chair as Pope Martin V
Benedetto Luti · 1700
Provenance
Ownership history
- Francesco Maria Niccolò Gabburri (1676–1742), Rome, by 1722 [his inventory dated 1722]. Sold, Christie’s, New York, Jan. 28, 2000, lot 33. Private collection; sold, Sotheby’s, New York, Jan. 30, 2013, lot 243, to the Gray Collection Trust, Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection", January 25 - May 10, 2020, pp, 36-37, cat. 13, p. 136, GC 58, traveled to New York, The Morgan Library, February 19 - June 6, 2021, and Berkeley CA, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, August 4 - November 28, 2021.
Literature
Published references
- Giuseppe Campori, Raccolta di cataloghi ed inventari inediti (C. Vincenzi, 1870), pp. 521–22.
- Rodolfo Maffeis, Benedetto Luti, l’ultimo maestro (Mandragora, 2012), pp. 286, 288, 289; and pl. 34 (color ill.).
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