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Angel Playing a Flute
Circle of Giuseppe Cesari · 1580
Provenance
Ownership history
- Rev. Dr. H. Wellesley [see Lugt 1384; according to inscription, on face of former mount]; sold, Sotheby's London, June 30, 1866, part of lot 949 (as Cav. d'Arpino), to [Urban M.] Noseda [see Lugt 1948. Sold, Puttick & Simpson, London, Dec. 4, 1914, to William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower right, and verso, center, in black]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922 [stamp (Lugt 1230b), verso, center, in black].
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Literature
Published references
- 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. 83-84, no. 106 (ill.).
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