Currently not on view
Sibyl with a Tablet,
early 1550s
Luca Cambiaso, 1527–1585; born Genoa, Italy; died Madrid, Spain
x1948-640
Information
Title
Sibyl with a Tablet
Dates
early 1550s
Maker
Medium
Pen and brown ink over traces of black chalk
Dimensions
31.7 × 14.7 cm (12 1/2 × 5 13/16 in.)
frame: 61.6 × 46.5 × 2.9 cm (24 1/4 × 18 5/16 × 1 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Dan Fellows Platt, Class of 1895
Object Number
x1948-640
Reference Numbers
Gibbons 95
Culture
Type
Materials
Subject
Purchased in New York in 1920 by Dan Fellows Platt, stamp (L. 750a) verso, lower left on mount, in black.;
From Finch College, “Drawings of Luca Cambiaso”: dated 1547. (See reference Bib. 4512);
- Drawings of Luca Cambiaso, Moneglia, Italy, 1527-1585 El Escorial, Spain: a loan exhibition, Nov. 22, 1967-Jan. 21, 1968, Finch College Museum of Art, (New York: Finch College Museum of Art, 1967)., no. 3
- Felton Gibbons, Catalogue of Italian Drawings in The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1977).
- Heinz Widauer, Italienische Zeichnungen des 16. Jahrhunderts: die Graphische Sammlung des Linzer Stadtmuseums Nordico, (Linz: Das Stadtmuseum Linz, 1991)., pp. 88, 90, fig. 3
- Lauro Magnani, Luca Cambiaso da Genova all’Escorial, (Genova: Sagep, 1995)., p. 154, 162n; p. 172, 182n
- Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura M. Giles, Italian drawings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago: a catalogue of the collection, (Chicago, IL: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1997)., p. 267
- Jonathan Bober, Luca Cambiaso 1527-1585, (Milano: Silvana, 2006)., pp. 133-135, fig. 2; p. 147, no. 7 (verso)
- Laura Giles, Lia Markey, Claire Van Cleave, et. al., Italian Master Drawings from the Princeton University Art Museum, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2014)., p. 108, cat. no. 44; p. 109 (illus.); p. 233, app. no. 25 (illus.)
