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].
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
Credit Line
The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection