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Studies for Prophets in Spandrels
Aurelio Luini · c. 1555
Provenance
Ownership history
- Leopold I, Fürst von Anhalt-Dessau (1676-1747) [stamp (Lugt 1708b), verso, lower center, in black]. Philip Hofer (1898-1986), Camden, Maine, by 1939 [according to MFA exh. cat. 1939]. Sold by Durlacher Brothers, New York (through Budworth) to the Art Institute in 1941, as Paolo Veronese [receipt in curatorial file].
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Washington, D.C., International Exhibitions Foundation, "Venetian Drawings from American Collections," September 1974-April 1975, cat. 23, as by Veronese, cat. by Terisio Pignatti; traveled to Fort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Art Museum, and St. Louis, Mo., The St. Louis Art Museum.
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, "Old Master Drawings from American Collections," April 20-June 8, 1976.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago," April 10-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
- 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. 134-35, no. 174 (ill.).
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