Vulcan's Forge

Prints and Drawings

c. 1570

Attributed to Luca Cambiaso
Italian, 1527-1585

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Luca Cambiaso
Title: Vulcan's Forge
Place: Italy (Artist's nationality)
Date: 1568–1572
Medium: Pen and iron gall ink with traces of black chalk, on cream laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, lower center on mount, in pen and brown ink: "Luca Cambiaso"
Dimensions: 31.2 × 21.5 cm (12 5/16 × 8 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1922.2237
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Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Italian Drawings of the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries (Chicago and London, 1979), p. 35, no. 1F6 (as 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. 55-6, no. 64 (ill.).

Sold, Puttick & Simpson, London, May 15, 1914, part of lot 85, 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, lower right on mount, in black].

McCullagh & Giles 64

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