
Head of a Monk
Francesco Vanni · n.d.
Provenance
Ownership history
- Sir Joshua Reynolds [stamp (Lugt 2364), recto, lower right, in black. John Richardson, Sr. [script (Lugt 2984), verso, lower center, in pen and brown ink]. Th. Hudson [stamp (Lugt 2432), recto, lower left, in black]. Sold, Puttick & Simpson, Aug. 13, 1915, to William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower left, and verso, center on mount, in black]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922 [stamp (Lugt 1230b), verso, center on mount, in black].
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Literature
Published references
- Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Italian Drawings of the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries (Chicago and London, 1979), pp. 162–63, no. 5F5 (as Francesco Vanni).
- 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. 247, no. 320 (ill.).
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