Man Tugging on Sheet: Study for the Entombment [Sacristy of the Certosa di San Martino, Naples, 1596] by Giuseppe Cesari, called Cavaliere d'Arpino
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Man Tugging on Sheet: Study for the Entombment [Sacristy of the Certosa di San Martino, Naples, 1596]

Giuseppe Cesari, called Cavaliere d'Arpino · 1595/96

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Dr. C. D. Ginsburg [stamp (Lugt 1145), verso, lower left on mount, in black]; sold, Sotheby's, London, July 20, 1915, part of lot 2, as "Andrea del Sarto, Man holding a Cloth," to Maggs Bros., London; 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 of mount, in black].

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago, "Italian Drawings in the Art Institute of Chicago," 1979-1980, cat. 51 (as Giuseppe Cesari, Figure Study of a Man).
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago," April 10, 1997-July 22, 1997.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "Strokes of Genius: Italian Drawings from the Goldman Collection," November 1, 2014-February 1, 2015.

Literature

Published references

  • Harold Joachim and Suzanne McCullagh, Italian Drawings in the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), pp. 47-48, no. 51, pl. 61 (as Giuseppe Cesari, Figure Study of a Man), p. 126, no. 4D4 (as Giuseppe Cesari, Figure Study of a Man).
  • 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. 83, no. 105 (ill.).

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