Circumcision of the Christ Child (recto); Marriage of the Virgin (verso)

Provenance

Sir Ch. Greville [stamp (Lugt 549), verso, lower left, in black]; his nephew the 4th Earl of Warwick [stamp (Lugt 2600), recto, lower right, in black]. Sold, Puttick & Simpson, London, May 28, 1915, to William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamps (Lugt 5308), lower right, and verso, 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, in black].

Circumcision of the Christ Child (recto); Marriage of the Virgin (verso)

Follower of Paolo Veronese

c. 1577

Accession Number

112742

Medium

Black chalk with pen and brown ink, heightened with lead white (partially discolored) (recto), and black chalk (verso), on cream laid paper, recto squared in black chalk

Dimensions

26.4 × 33.4 cm (10 7/16 × 13 3/16 in.)

Classification

chalk with ink

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection