Study for a Ceiling Decoration, with Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well (recto); Study for a Ceiling Decoration (verso) by Giorgio Vasari
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Study for a Ceiling Decoration, with Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well (recto); Study for a Ceiling Decoration (verso)

Giorgio Vasari · 1569/73

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. G. Vallardi [stamp (Lugt 1223), recto, upper left, in blue]. J. J. Lindman [stamp (Lugt 1479a), recto, lower right, in purple]. William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower right, and verso, lower left, in black]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922 [stamp (Lugt 1230b), verso, lower left, in black].

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Oberlin, Ohio, Allen Memorial Art Museum, "From Studio to Studiolo: Florentine Draftsmanship under the first Medici Grand Dukes," Oct. 14-Dec. 1, 1991.
  • New Haven, Conn., Yale University Art Gallery, "The Ager of Giorgio Vasari: Art, Literature, and History at the Medicean Court," Apr. 14-May 15, 1994.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago," Apr. 12-June 22, 1997.
  • Detroit Institute of Arts, "The Medici, Michelangelo, and the Art of Late Renaissance Florence," Mar. 16-June 8, 2003, cat. 211, p. 348 (ill.); also the Art Institute of Chicago, Nov. 9, 2002-Feb. 2, 2003.

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), pp. 249-50, no. 324 (ill.).

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