
Holy Family with Angel
Jacopo Palma, called il Vecchio · c. 1525
Provenance
Ownership history
- Unknown collector [paraphe (not in Lugt), verso, center, in pen and brown ink]. Mr. Provis; sold, Chipperhorn, May 1856 [according to inscription verso, center on mount, in pen and brown ink]. Dr. William Ogle, London; sold, Sotheby, Feb. 6, 1913, to William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower right, 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
- Alessandro Ballarin, "Tre disegni: Palma il Vecchio, Lotto, Romanino (e alcune osservaazioni sul ruolo del Romanino al Buonconsiglio)," Arte Veneta 24 (1970), pp. 47-62.
- Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Italian Drawings of the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries (Chicago, 1979), p. 87, no. 3C2 (as Anonymous, Sixteenth Century, Northern Italy).
- Jane Martineau and Charles Hope, The Genius of Venice 1500-1600, exhibition cat., Royal Academy of Arts (London, 1983).
- 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. 167, no. 215 (ill.).
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