Study for the "Madonna of the Rosary"

Provenance

Paul-Frantz Marcou (1860–1932), Paris [stamp (Lugt 1911b) recto, lower left, in black]; his younger daughter, Catherine Marcou, wife of Henry Dumas, Paris; sold, Lafon, Sociéte de Ventes Volontaires, Paris, May, 23, 2007, lot 1 (as attributed to Francesco Vanni); Salamander Fine Arts, London (as Federico Barocci); sold to Richard and Mary L. Gray and the Gray Collection Trust, Chicago, July 24, 2007; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2021.

Study for the "Madonna of the Rosary"

Federico Barocci

c. 1589

Accession Number

202150

Medium

Black chalk, with brush and brown wash, red chalk, and touches of graphite, heightened with white chalk and white gouache, on tan laid paper, squared in red chalk

Dimensions

28.2 × 39 cm (11 1/8 × 15 3/8 in.)

Classification

drawing

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray