Bishop Saint Blessing a Mother and Child by Alessandro Casolani
Art Institute of ChicagoPublic domain

Bishop Saint Blessing a Mother and Child

Alessandro Casolani · 1575/1600

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792), London [stamp (Lugt 2364), recto, lower left]. Arthur Melville Champernowne (born 1871) South Devon [script (Lugt 153), recto, lower left, in pen and black ink]. William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower right]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922 [stamp (Lugt 1230b), verso of mount].

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Art Institute of Chicago, "151 Italian Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," Dec. 1979-Mar. 1980, p. 43, no. 42, pl. 49, cat. by Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh; also traveled to the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago," April 10-June 22, 1997.

Literature

Published references

  • Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Italian Drawings of the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries (Chicago and London, 1979), pp. 119-20, no. 4C1.
  • 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. 75-6, no. 92 (ill.).

Comparables

Related holdings by the same hand

Museum holdings, not sale records. Auction results are only shown when a licensed price source is connected.

Research assistant

Ask about this record