Adoration of the Christ Child

Provenance

Parsons & Sons, London [stamp (Lugt 2881) recto, lower right, in black]. Sold, Puttick & Simpson, London, Oct. 23, 1914, to William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago; bequeathed to the Art Institute as part of the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922.

Adoration of the Christ Child

Filippo Bellini

1580/1600

Accession Number

7583

Medium

Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white (partly oxidized), over traces of red chalk, on lunette-shaped tan laid paper, squared in red chalk and pen and brown ink, laid down on ivory laid card

Dimensions

67 × 35.3 cm (26 7/16 × 13 15/16 in.)

Classification

pen and ink drawings

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection