Two Standing Draped Figures (Saint John and the Magdalene?)

Provenance

Padre Sebastiano Resta (1635-1714) Milan (see Lugt 2992 and Lugt Suppl. 2993). Monsignor Giovanni Matteo Marchetti, Bishop of Arezzo (died 1704), Arezzo (see Lugt 2911); bequeathed to his nephew, Cavaliere Orazio Marchetti da Pistoia; sold probably through John Talman (died. 1726), Hinkworth, Herfordshire (see Lugt 2462) in 1710 to John, Lord Somers [script (Lugt 2981) verso, upper center on mount, in pen and black ink]; his sale, London, Motteux, May 16, 1717. John Richardson, Sr. [stamp (Lugt 2183) recto, lower right, in black (faded), and script verso, upper center on mount, in pen and brown ink]. Benjamin West [dry stamp (Lugt 419) recto, lower center]; sold, London, Sotheby's, May 11, 1836, part of lot 40 (as "Parmiggiano [xic]), STUDIES FOR THE FIGURES OF ST. JOHN AND THE MAGDALEN, from collections of Richardson and West") to Oliver. Hoarace Stone Wilcocks, Plymouth, England; sold, Sotheby's, June 5-6, 1913, part of lot 299 (as "Parmegiano [sic] from B. West Collection"), to Maggs Bros., London; William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamps (Lugt 5308), recto, lower center, 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 of mount, in black].

Two Standing Draped Figures (Saint John and the Magdalene?)

Battista Franco

1540/60

Accession Number

80979

Medium

Pen and brown ink on brown laid paper, laid down on cream laid card

Dimensions

16.3 × 14.5 cm (6 7/16 × 5 3/4 in.)

Classification

pen and ink drawings

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection