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First Family Before a Shelter

Baccio Bandinelli · 1547/48

Provenance

Ownership history

Everhard Jabach (died 1695), Paris [Lugt suppl. 960a and 2959]; by descent to his grandson, Gerhard Michael Jabach; sold, Amsterdam, October 1753, Jabach sale, lot 2, to Michael Oudaan [letter from Bernadette Py of April 4, 2000 in curatorial file]; sold, Amsterdam, 1766, Oudaan sale, lot 23. Alphonse Wyatt Thibaudeau (died c. 1892), Paris and London [Lugt 2473]. Sir John Charles Robinson (died 1913) [Lugt 1433]. Émile-Louis Calando (died before 1899), Paris; his son, Emile Calando (died 1953), Paris [Lugt suppl. 426b]. Sold, Christie’s, London, April 12, 1983, lot 30 to the William H. Schab Gallery, New York [notes from Roger Ward in curatorial file]; sold to Mr. and Mrs. Martin Lederman, New York [according to Ward]. Sold by Aldega/Gordon, New York, to the Art Institute, 1992.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

New York, Margot Gordon's, "Old Master Drawings," 1992, cat. 5, January 15-March 30, 1992; traveled to Rome, Galleria Marcello Aldega, April 15-May 31, 1992.
The Art Institute of Chicago, August 14, 1994-January 31, 1995.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago," April 10-July 22, 1997.
The Detroit Institute of Arts, "The Medici, Michelangelo, and the Art of Late Renaissance Florence," March 16- June 8, 2003, no. 151; also traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, November 9, 2002-February 2, 2003.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Capturing the Sublime: Italian Drawings of the Renaissance and Baroque", March 26-July 8, 2012, pl 10, pp. 40-41, cat. by Suzanne Folds McCullagh, et. al.

Literature

Roger Ward, Baccio Bandinelli, 1493-1560: Drawings from British Collections (Cambridge, 1988), p. 70.
Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura M. Giles, Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1997), p. 12, no. 11, pl. 1.

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