Deposition

Prints and Drawings

1570/75

Attributed to Luca Cambiaso
Italian, 1527-1585

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Luca Cambiaso
Title: Deposition
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.: 1570–1575
Medium: Pen and brown ink with brush and light brown wash, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper, laid down on cream laid board
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, lower center, in pen and brown ink: "Luc Cangiage"; lower right, in pen and brown ink (partially erased): "Luchetto"; verso, lower right on mount, in pen and brown ink: "Cangiage / No. 12"
Dimensions: 34.6 × 24.8 cm (13 5/8 × 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1922.573
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Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Italian Drawings of the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries (Chicago and London, 1979), p. 37, no. 1F11 (as School of Luca Cambiaso).
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. 56-7, no. 66 (ill.).

A. C. Drummond, London; sold, Sotheby’s, London, Nov. 5, 1912, part of lot 277, as “L. Cangiage, The Descent from the Cross,” to Maggs Bros., London. 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 on mount, in black].

McCullagh & Giles 66

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