
Temperance
Girolamo da Carpi · 1521/56
Provenance
Ownership history
- N. Lanier or Lanière [stamp (Lugt 2885) recto, lower left, in black]. Robert Low [stamp (Lugt 2222) recto, lower center, in purple]; Dr. Ridley of Croydon, England; sold, Sotheby's, London, Apr. 2, 1912, to William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower right, in black]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922 [stamp (Lugt 1230b), verso center, 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; traveled to Washington, D.C., Natinal Gallery of Art.
Literature
Published references
- Norman W. Canedy, "Some Preparatory Drawings by Girolamo da Carpi," Burlington Magazine 112 (1970), p. 90, fig. 28 (as "here attributed to Girolamo da Cari").
- John A. Gere, "Review of: Norman W. Canedy, The Roman Sketchbook of Girolamo da Carpi," Master Drawings 16 (1978), pp. 180-85.
- Harold Joachim and Susanne Folds McCullagh, Italian Drawings of the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries, The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), p. 27, no. 11, pl. 13 (as Girolamo da Carpi); pp. 44-45, no. 2A3 (as Girolamo da Carpi).
- Diane De Grazia Bohlin, "Review of: Norman W. Canedy, The Roman Sketchbook of Girolamo da Carpi," Renaissance Quarterly 32 (1979), pp. 391-93.
- 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. 118-19, no. 150 (ill.).
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