Study for the Allegorical Figure of Earthly Harmony

Provenance

John Skippe (1742–1811), Ledbury; his daughter Penelope Skippe (died 1830), wife of James Martin (1738–1844), Overbury Court, Worcestershire; their son John Martin (1774–1831), Overbury Court; his son Robert Martin (1808–1897), Overbury Court; his daughter Penelope Martin (1842–1873), wife of Rev. Frederick Whitmore Holland, Evesham; their son, Robert Holland-Martin (1872–1944); his sister Julia Holland-Martin (1873–1955), wife of Algernon Cockburn Rayner-Wood, Singleton Lodge, Lancashire; their nephew Edward Holland-Martin (1900–1958), London; sold, Christie's, London, Nov. 20–21, 1958, lot 125 (as Benedetto Luti). Sold, Sotheby's New York, Jan. 25, 2006, lot 70. Sold by Salamander Fine Arts, London, to Richard and Mary L. Gray, Chicago, Mar. 3, 2006 (promised to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019); given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2022.

Study for the Allegorical Figure of Earthly Harmony

Domenico Maria Canuti

c. 1677

Accession Number

202248

Medium

Red, black, and dark red chalk, with stumping, heightened with white chalk, on gray laid paper, laid down on cream laid laminated card

Dimensions

37 × 29.1 cm (14 5/8 × 11 1/2 in.)

Classification

chalk

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray