Adoration of the Magi

Provenance

Probably Padre Sebastiano Resta (1635-1714), Milan [see Lugt 2992 and Lugt Suppl. 2993]. Probably Monsignor Giovanni Matteo Marchetti, Bishop of Arezzo (died 1704), Arezzo [see Lugt 2911]; probably bequeathed to his nephew, Cavaliere Orazio Marchetti, Pistoia; sold, probably through John Talman (died 1726), Hinkworth, Herfordshire [see Lugt 2462], to John, Lord Somers, London, 1710 [script (Lugt 2981)]; probably sold, Motteux, London, May 16, 1717. John Richardson, Sr. [script (Lugt 2983) verso, upper center on mount, in pen and brown ink and recto, lower center on mount, pen and brown ink]. Dr. William Ogle, London; sold, Sotheby's, London, Feb. 6, 1913, part of lot 179, as "P. Veronese, Adoration of the Magi" to Maggs Bros., London. William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower left, and verso, center on mount, 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].

Adoration of the Magi

Benedetto Caliari

1590/98

Accession Number

80917

Medium

Pen and brown ink and black chalk, with brush and brown wash, heightened with gouache, on green laid paper, laid down on tan laid card

Dimensions

20.8 × 30.6 cm (8 1/4 × 12 1/16 in.)

Classification

pen and ink drawings

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection