A Standing Sibyl with a Scroll, mid 1550s

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 36.8 × 23.5 cm (14 1/2 × 9 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Purchased as the Gift of Joan and David Maxwell

Accession Number

2016.75.1

Artists / Makers

Luca Cambiaso (artist) Genoese, 1527 - 1585

Image Use

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Provenance

Richard Cosway, London (1740-1821) (Lugt 629). Prince Jean de Cantacuzène, Bucharest (1863 - 1934) (Lugt 4030). Hone Collection, New York. (Schaeffer Galleries, New York); Lillian Sapirstein, New York, 1970. Private Collection, New York; (Richard A. Berman, New York); purchased 2016 by NGA.

Associated Names

Berman, Richard
Cantacuzène, Prince, Jean de
Cosway, Richard
Sapirstein, Lillian
Schaeffer Galleries, Inc.

Exhibition History

1992: European Drawings from the Collection of Lillian Sapirstein, The Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, College of Fine Arts, The University of Texas at Austin, 1992, n.p.

Bibliography

2006: Bober, Jonathan, et al. Luca Cambiaso, 1527 - 1585. Milan, 2006, 252, under nos. 21a and 21b.

2007: Boccardo, Piero, Franco Boggero, Clario De Fabio, Lauro Magnani, and Jonathan Bober. Luca Cambiaso: un maestro del Cinquecento europeo. Milan, 2007: 369, under no. 14.

2017: Bober, Jonathan. "Luca Cambiaso, A Standing Sibyl with a Scroll." National Gallery of Art Bulletin no. 56 (Spring 2017): 26-27 (color).