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Study for "The Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew"

Guercino · 1635/36

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What the record supports

"Study for 'The Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew'" is a pen and brown ink drawing by Guercino, executed in 1635/36. The work also incorporates brush and brown wash on buff laid paper, which has been laid down on ivory laid paper and edge mounted under blue wove paper. It measures 29.7 × 20.4 cm (11 3/4 × 8 1/16 in.) and is classified as a pen and ink drawing from Italy, held in the Prints and Drawings department.

The drawing's provenance indicates it was owned by Hugo L. Loewe of Berlin, then descended to his daughter, Marie Louise Pritchard of Chicago, who gifted it to the Art Institute in 1960. The artist, Guercino (1591–1666), was a painter of the Italian 17th century. No information regarding auction prices or specific acquisition details beyond the gift is provided in the catalogue record.

This artwork has been featured in multiple exhibitions, including "151 Italian Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago" (1979-1980), "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983" (1985), and "Guercino: Master Draftsman, Works from North American Collections" (1991). It has also been cited in several publications, such as Jacob Bean's "Italian Drawings in the Museum, Princeton University" (1966) and Luigi Salerno's "Dipinti del Guercino" (1988).

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Provenance

Ownership history

Hugo L. Loewe, Berlin; by descent to his daughter, Marie Louise Pritchard, Chicago [according to a letter from Norman Pritchard dated July 3, 1961 in curatorial file]; given to the Art Institute, 1960.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

The Art Institute of Chicago, "151 Italian Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," December 1979-March 1980, cat. 63, cat. by Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh; traveled to Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 38-39, cat. 8 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi; traveled to The St. Louis Art Museum, March 10-May 16, 1986.
Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum, "Guercino: Master Draftsman, Works from North American Collections," February 16-March 31, 1991; traveled to Ottawa, Canada, The National Gallery of Canada, May 3-June 16, 1991.

Literature

Published references

Jacob Bean, Italian Drawings in the Museum, Princeton University (Princeton, 1966), p. 33.
Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries and Spanish Drawings of the 17th through 19th Centuries (Chicago, 1980), no. 3D11.
Luigi Salerno, Dipinti del Guercino (Rome, 1988), p. 247.
Nicholas Turner and Carol Plazzotta, Drawings by Guercino from British Collections (London, 1991), p. 137.

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