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Christ on the Cross: Study for the Crucifixion with Saints
Guercino · 1624/25
Provenance
Ownership history
- Dr. Benno Geiger (born 1882) Vienna. Charles Deering (1852–1927), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 516)]; by descent to his daughters, Mrs. Chauncey McCormick (née Marion Deering; 1886–1965), Chicago and Mrs. Richard Ely Danielson (née Barbara Deering; 1885–1957), Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1927.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- St. Louis Art Museum, "Italian Drawings Selected from Midwestern Collections," Feb. 25-Apr. 16, 1972, cat. 31 (ill.).
- Harvard University Museums, "Guercino: Master Draftsman, Works from North American Collections," Feb 16-Mar. 31, 1991, cat. 13, pp. 70-71 (ill.).
Literature
Published references
- Leo Planiscig and Hermann Voss, Drawings of Old Masters from the Collection of Dr. Benno Geiger
- (Zurich: Amalthea, c. 1920), no. 35 (ill.).
- Harold Joachim and Suzanne McCullagh, Italian Drawings in the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979), no. 61, pl. 70.
- Dennis Mahon and Nicholas Turner, The Drawings of Guercino in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen at Windsor Castle (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), under no. 33, p. 18.
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