
Study for Saint Michael Casting Out Lucifer
Francesco Vanni · 1581/83
Provenance
Ownership history
- Unknown Italian collector, c. 1830 [script (Lugt 3005f), verso, lower left, on former mount, in graphite]. Sold, Puttick & Simpson, London, May 15, 1914, part of lot 85, to William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, upper left, in black]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922 [stamp (Lugt 1230b), verso, lower center on former mount, in black].
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago," Apr. 12-June 22, 1997.
- New Haven, Conn., Yale University Art Gallery, "Franceso Vanni: Art in Late Renaissance Siena," September 27, 2013-January 5, 2014, cat. 1, pp. 48-50, cat. by John Marciari et. al.
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. 244-45, no. 318 (ill.).
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