
Studies for the Deposition
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 [Boston 1939]. Sold by Durlacher Brothers, New York, to the Art Institute, 1941.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, "Art in New England: Paintings, Drawings, Prints from Private Collections in New England," June 9-September 10, 1939, cat. 217, as by Veronese.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings: Old and New," 1946, p. 26, cat. 54, pl. VI, as by Veronese, cat. Carl Schniewind.
- New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 5, pl. V, as by Veronese.
- Birmingham/Montgomery, "Veronese and His Studio in North American Collections," 1972, p. 59, as by circle of Veronese.
- 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
- Hans Tietze, "Nuovi disegni veneti del Cinquecento in collezioni americane," Arte Veneta (1948), pp. 56-65 (ill.), as by Veronese.
- Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Italian Drawings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), pp. 35-36, no. 27, as by Veronese.
- Robert Cocke, Veronese's Drawings (Ithaca, 1984), no. 166, as not by Veronese.
- Giulio Bora, "Tradizione luinesca da San Vittore a Meda a San Maurizio al Monastero Maggiore," Raccolta Vinciana XXIV (1992), pp. 155-79.
- 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.).
- Giovanni Agosti, Rosanna Sacchi, and Jacopo Stoppa, Bernardino Luini e i suoi figli: Itinerari (Milan, 2014), pp. 140-145 (ill.)
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