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Seated Youth Wearing a Monk's Habit: Study for Saint Benedict
Bartolomeo Cesi · 1590
Provenance
Ownership history
- Possibly Signori Locatelli, Bologna. E. Peart [script (Lugt 892) recto, lower left, in pen and brown ink]. Sold, Puttick and Simpson, London, May 15, 1914, part of lot 85, to William F. E. Gurley (1854-1943), Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Regina, Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, "A selection of Italian drawings from North American collections," January 16-February 15, 1970, p. 34, cat. 23; traveled to Montreal, Museum of Fine Arts, March 5-April 3, 1970.
- St. Louis Art Museum, "Italian drawings selected from mid-western collections," February 25-April 16, 1972, cat 21, cat. by Nancy Ward Neilson.
- Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, "Italian drawings in The Art Institute of Chicago," p. 45, cat. 45, and p. 124, pl. 54, cat. by Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, 1979-80.
- Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, "Bolognese Drawings in North American Collections, 1500-1800," 1982, exh. cat. by Mimi Cazort and Catherine Johnston, pp. 59-60, cat. 19.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago," April 10-June 22, 1997.
Literature
Published references
- Ulrich Middeldorf, "Old Master Drawings from the Fifteenth through the Eighteenth Centuries: Two Hundred Examples from the Collection of The Art Institute of Chicago, Selected and Described by Ulrich Middeldorf," Unpublished Manuscript, Department of Prints and Drawings, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1938/40.
- Harold Joachim, The Art Institute of Chicago: Italian Drawings of the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries (with microfiche ill.), compiled by Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Sandra Haller Olsen (Chicago, 1979), p. 127, no. 4D8.
- Daniele Benati, Per il percorso iniziale di Bartolomeo Cesi, "Paragone," no. 369 (1980), p. 16, pl. 8.
- Andrea Emiliani, et al., Bologna 1584: Gli Esordi dei Carracci e Gli Affreschi di Palazzo Fava, exh. cat. (Bologna, 1984), pp. 41-42, under no. 35, fig. 35A.
- Diane DeGrazia, with an essay by Eugenio Riccomini, Correggio and his Legacy: Sixteenth-century Emilian Drawings, exh. cat. (Washington, 1984) p. 348, no. 5.
- Alberto Graziani, with essays by Francesco Abbate and Mario di Giampaolo, Bartolomeo Cesi (Milan, 1988), p. 169.
- Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura M. Giles, Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1997), pp. 86-87, no. 110 (ill.).
- Shelley Perlove and George S. Keyes (editors).
- Seventeenth-Century European Drawings in Midwestern Collections (University of Notre Dame Press, 2014), pp. 20.
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