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Standing Male Nude
Cecco Bravo · 1637/38
Provenance
Ownership history
- Cosimo Noferi [Moatti 1992]. Cardinal Leopold de’Medici [Moatti 1992]. Kurt Meissner, Zurich, by 1969 [Stanford 1969]. Ian Woodner (died 1990), New York; sold, Christie's, London, July 2, 1991, Woodner sale, lot 110. Sold by Emmanuel Moatti, Paris, to the Art Institute, 1992.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle, "Handzeichnungen alter Meister aus schweizer Privatbesitz," January-February 1968, cat. 98.
- Palo Alto, Calif. Stanford Art Gallery, "Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Kurt Meissner, Zurich," November 2-December 14, 1969, cat. 32; also traveled to The Detroit Institute of Art, January 27-March 8, 1970 and The Finch College Museum of Art, New York, April 1-June 15, 1970.
Literature
Published references
- Emmanuel Moatti, Moatti, Dessins Anciens (Paris, 1992), no. 27 (ill.).
- Shelley Perlove and George S. Keyes (editors).
- Seventeenth-Century European Drawings in Midwestern Collections (University of Notre Dame Press, 2014), pp. 21, 22, 34 no. 5, 35 (ill.)
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