Solomon and the Queen of Sheba (recto); Sketch of the Queen of Sheba (verso) by Bernardo Castello
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Solomon and the Queen of Sheba (recto); Sketch of the Queen of Sheba (verso)

Bernardo Castello · 1590/99

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Unknown Italian collector, early-mid-nineteenth-century [script (Lugt 3005f), verso, lower center in graphite]. Dr. H. Wellesley [according to inscription, verso, lower left in graphite], sold, Sotheby's, London, June 25-July 11, 1866, possibly lot 956 (as "subject by Veronese"). R. Johnson [stamp (Lugt 2216), laid down verso, lower left, in black]. Parsons and Sons [stamp (Lugt 2881), laid down verso, lower right on mount, in black]. Sold, Puttick & Simpson, London, Jan. 15, 1915, 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, lower right, in black].

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Literature

Published references

  • 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. 78, no. 96 (ill.).

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