Solomon and the Queen of Sheba (recto); Sketch of the Queen of Sheba (verso)

Provenance

Unknown Italian collector, early-mid-nineteenth-century [script (Lugt 3005f), verso, lower center in graphite]. Dr. H. Wellesley [according to inscription, verso, lower left in graphite], sold, Sotheby's, London, June 25-July 11, 1866, possibly lot 956 (as "subject by Veronese"). R. Johnson [stamp (Lugt 2216), laid down verso, lower left, in black]. Parsons and Sons [stamp (Lugt 2881), laid down verso, lower right on mount, in black]. Sold, Puttick & Simpson, London, Jan. 15, 1915, 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, in black].

Solomon and the Queen of Sheba (recto); Sketch of the Queen of Sheba (verso)

Bernardo Castello

1590/99

Accession Number

112793

Medium

Pen and iron gall ink on ivory laid paper (recto and verso)

Dimensions

13 × 43 cm (5 1/8 × 16 15/16 in.)

Classification

pen and iron gall ink

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection