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 82 (attributed to Lorenzo di Credi). Colnaghi, London. Private collection; sold, Christie's, New York, Jan. 12, 1995, lot 9 (as Federico Barocci). Yvonne Tan Bunzl, London, 1996. C.G. Boerner/Artemis, New York, 2002; sold to Richard and Mary L. Gray, Chicago, Apr. 2004 (promised to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019); given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2022.
Study for the Christ Child in the Madonna of S. Simone (recto); Study of a Landscape (verso)
c. 1567
Accession Number
202149
Medium
Black chalk, with stumping (recto), and black chalk, with touches of red chalk (verso), on cream laid paper
Dimensions
23.1 × 15.9 cm (9 1/8 × 6 5/16 in.)
Classification
drawings (visual works)
Credit Line
Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray