Two Angels Carrying Torches, c. 1501

Provenance

Giorgio Vasari [1511-1574]; Niccolò Gaddi [d. 1591]; possibly Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel; probably William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire [1672-1729]; by descent, Chatsworth (inv.no.960) (sale, London, Christie's, 3 July 1984, lot 46); purchased by Ian Woodner, New York; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York, 1990; purchased by NGA, 1991.

Exhibition History

1930

Italian Drawings Exhibited at the Royal Academy, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1930, no. 50 (recto only).

1949

Old Master Drawings from Chatsworth, Arts Council of Great Britain, London, 1949, no. 10.

1962

Old Master Drawings from Chatsworth: A Loan Exhibition from the Devonshire Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. and elsewhere, 1962-63, no. 36.

1969

Old Master Drawings from Chatsworth: A Loan Exhibition from the Devonshire Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1969, no. 36.

1973

Old Master Drawings from Chatsworth: A Loan Exhibition from the Devonshire Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1973-74, no. 36.

1985

Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1985, no. 76 (checklist only).

1986

Dibujos de los siglos XIV al XX: Colección Woodner, Museo del Prado, Madrid, 1986-87, no. 29.

1986

Meisterzeichnungen aus Sechs Jahrhunderten: Die Sammlung Ian Woodner, Haus der Kunst, Munich and Vienna, 1986, no. 24.

1987

Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1987, no. 22.

1990

Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 29.

1995

The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 9.

1997

The Drawings of Filippino Lippi and his Circle, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1997-1998, nos. 6, 51, 64, 66, 79, 80, 84, 107, 108, 117.

2000

Art for the Nation: Collecting for a New Century, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000-2001, 132-135.

2000

Sandro Botticelli, Der Bilderzyklus zu Dantes Göttlicher Komödie. Kulturforum, Berlin; Scuderie Papali al Quirinale, Rome; Royal Academy, London, 2000-2001, 364, 365 (.1.a only, as Botticelli) (shown only in Berlin).

Bibliography

2011

Cammarota, Gian Piero, et al. "La pala di Filippino Lippi per la Cappella Casali in San Domenico a Bologna," Bollettino d'Arte, serie VII, fasc. 10 (April-June 2011): 128, 129, 131, 132, 137 note 19, fig. 8.

2013

Schenck, Kimberly, et al. "A Page from Giorgio Vasari's Libro de' Disegni as Composite Object." Facture 1 (2013): 2, 25, 26, 27, 28, fig. 21 (color).

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