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Saint Francis of Assisi Adoring the Virgin and Child

Denys CalvaertLinkedCulture matchlcp-f80e485aefa7

Date: 1607
Medium: Black chalk on blue laid paper
Culture: Flanders
Department: Prints and Drawings
Institution: Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID: 149022

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This monumental drawing shows Denys Calvaert’s nearly final conception for an altarpiece. The artist made a few intriguing changes before completing the painting. He replaced a child in the lower left of the drawing with an older saint figure, covered the Christ Child’s genitalia, and shifted Saint Francis’s head toward the center of the composition.

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Credit line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Provenance: Jonathan Richardson, Jr. (1694–1771) [stamp (Lugt 2170), recto, lower right, in black]. Yvonne Tan Bunzl, London, by 1970 [London, 1970]; sold to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, Mass., Feb. 1971; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1998.

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Object type: AAT300033973

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