
An Angel in Flight
Giuseppe Cesari, called Cavaliere d'Arpino · c. 1599-1600
Provenance
Ownership history
- Possibly Jan Six (1618–1700), Amsterdam; sold, possibly Amsterdam, April 6, 1702, part of lot 3. Lambert Hermansz ten Kate (1674–1731), Amsterdam; sold, Amsterdam, June 16, 1732, album A, no. 8, for 30 guilders to Antoni Rutgers (1695–1778), Amsterdam; sold, Amsterdam, December 1, 1778, album I, no. 521, for 8 guilders to Cornelis Ploos van Amstel (1726–1798), Amsterdam; sold, Amsterdam, March 3, 1800, album AA, no. 39. Baron Roger Portalis (1841–1912), Paris [Lugt 2232]. Léon Voillemot (1881–1949), Paris [Lugt 789d]. Galerie Pierre Gaubert, Paris, to a private collection, Brussels. With W.M. Brady & Co., New York, by 2006 [Master Drawings 1520-1890, 2006, cat. 8]; sold to Herbert Kasper (1926–2020), New York, 2006; sold by Christies, New York, Oct. 14, 2021, lot 23, to the Art Institute of Chicago.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, From Raphael to Carracci: The Art of Papal Rome, 2009, cat. 148 (ill.).
- New York, The Morgan Library and Museum, Mannerism and Modernism: The Kasper Collection of Drawings and Photographs, 2011, cat. 30 (ill.).
Literature
Published references
- R. Weigel, Die Werke der Maler in ihren Handzeichnungen. Beschreibendes Verzeichniss der in Kupfer gestochenen, lithographirten und photographirten Facsimiles von Originalzeichnungen grosser Meister (Leipzig, 1865), no. 98 (ill.).
- J. G. van Gelder, ‘Lambert ten Kate als Kunstverzamelaar’, Nederlands kunsthistorisch jaarboek, XXI (1970), p. 173 (ill.).
- J. G. van Gelder and I. Jost, Jan de Bisschop and his Icones & Paradigmata. Classical Antiquities and Italian Drawings for Artistic Instruction in Seventeenth Century Holland (Doornspijk, 1985), pp. 234–35.
- Barbara Gaehtgens, Adriaen van der Werff, 1659-1722 (Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1987), p. 333.
- M. S. Bolzoni (Rome, 2013), no. 189 (ill.).
- H. Röttgen, Cavalier Giuseppe Cesari d’Arpino. Die Zeichnungen/ I disegni (Stuttgart, 2013), II:no. 385 (ill.).
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