Description
After Raphael, Federico Barocci was the most important painter from Urbino; like Raphael, Barocci prepared for his painted compositions with an elaborate series of drawings. One of thirty-six known studies for his Deposition, painted c. 1568 / 69 for the Chapel of San Bernardino in the Cathedral of Perugia, this is one of three life-sized drawings, or "cartoons," from which he transferred his design to its support.
Provenance
Provenance: Edward Cheney (1803–1884), London [inscription; Lugt 444]; sold, Sotheby's, London, April 29–May 5, 1885, Edward Cheney sale, part of lot 932 (as Baroccio and others, Studies of Heads). Sir John C. Robinson (1924–1913), London (Lugt 1433) [Sotheby's annotated sale catalogue]. Unidentified script P.M. Sold, Puttick & Simpson, London, July 24, 1913, part of lot 186, to William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [his stamp (not in Lugt) recto, lower left, in black]; given to the Art Institute, 1922.
Head of the Swooning Virgin: Study for the Deposition (recot) Base of Column (verso)
1568/69
Accession Number
112731
Medium
Black chalk and charcoal, with stumping and traces of white chalk, on tan laid paper, pieced and incised
Dimensions
29.4 × 23.9 cm (11 5/8 × 9 7/16 in.)
Classification
chalk
Credit Line
The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
