Saint Francis of Assisi Adoring the Virgin and Child by Denys Calvaert
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Saint Francis of Assisi Adoring the Virgin and Child

Denys Calvaert · 1607

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Jonathan Richardson, Jr. (1694–1771) [stamp (Lugt 2170), recto, lower right, in black]. Yvonne Tan Bunzl, London, by 1970 [London, 1970]; sold to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, Mass., Feb. 1971; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1998.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • London, Faerber and Maison, Old Master Drawings and Paintings Presented by Yvonne Tan Bunzl, April 6–25, 1970, cat. 15 (ill.).
  • Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Italian Drawings and Prints around 1600, Dec. 9, 1974–Feb. 15, 1975.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Gifts of a Lifetime: 49 Old Masters Drawings from the Dorothy Braude Edinburg Collection, Dec. 11,1998–Mar. 28,1999, checklist 9.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 32, cat. 7 (ill.).
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age", September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 85 (ill.), 86-87, 292-93 cat. 26, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.

Literature

Published references

  • D. Stephen Pepper, The Bob Jones University Collection of Religious Art: Italian Paintings (Greenville, SC: Bob Jones University, 1984), p. 39, under cat. 36.1.
  • David H. Steel, Jr., Baroque Paintings from the Bob Jones University Collection, exh. cat. (Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1984), p. 34, under cat. 6, fig. 4.
  • Teréz Gerszi, “Un Dessin récemment indentifié de Denys Calvaert,” Bulletin du Musée Hongrois des Beaux-Arts 64 (1985), pp. 35–42, fig. 19.
  • Giuliano Briganti et al., The Age of Correggio and the Carracci: Emilian Painting of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, exh. cat. (Washington, D.C.: National gallery of Art, 1986–87), p. 78, under cat.17.
  • Simone Twiehaus, Dionisio Calvaert, um 1540–1619: Die Altarwerke (Berlin: Reimer, 2002), p. 222, under cat. A26, fig. 57.
  • Mary Vaccaro, “A New Identified Drawing by Denys Calvaert in the Uffizi,” Burlington Magazine 158 (March, 2016), p. 193 (ill).

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