Allegorical Subject (Angel above Two Sibyls)

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Prints and Drawings

1560/65

Luca Cambiaso
Italian, 1527-1585

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Luca Cambiaso
Title: Allegorical Subject (Angel above Two Sibyls)
Place: Italy (Artist's nationality)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1560–1565
Medium: Pen and iron gall ink and brush and brown wash, on tan laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper, laid down on ivory laid card
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, lower right on mount, in pen and brown ink: "4667"; in graphite: "Cambiaso"; verso, upper center on mount in graphite: "Luca Cangiagi.- / Cambiaso / Luchetto da Genova"; lower right, in graphite: "Lucca Cangiasi"
Dimensions: 27.5 × 25.4 cm (10 7/8 × 10 in.)
Credit Line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1922.15
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William McCallin McKee, “The Gurley Collection of Drawings,” Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 16, no. 2 (1922), pp. 25-27 (ill.).
Licia Ragghianti Collobi, “Luca Cambiaso Disegnatore,” Critica d’Arte 3 (1954), pp. 239-62.
James Watrous, The Craft of Old-Master Drawings (Madison, 1967), pp. 74-75 (ill.) (as ‘Three Figures’).
Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Italian Drawings in the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), pp. 34-35, no. 25, pl. 32.
Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings of the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries, The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), p. 30, no. 1E4.
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. 52-53, no. 59 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, “The Leonora Hall Gurley Collection of Drawings: Early Italian,” March 5-April 30, 1922, cat. 3 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, “A Century of Progress: Exhibion of Paintings and Sculpture,” June 1-November 1, 1933, cat. 799 (as ‘Allegory of History’).
Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago,” April 10-July 22, 1997.

Paul Sandby [stamp (Lugt 2112), recto, lower left, in black]. Frederick R. Aikman; sold, Puttick & Simpson, London, Mar. 14, 1913, William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower right and verso, center on mount, in black]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922 [stamp (Lugt 1230b), verso, center on mount, in black].

McCullagh & Giles 59

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