Currently not on view
Sibyl Attended by a Genius Seated on a Cloud,
mid–1550s
Luca Cambiaso, 1527–1585; born Genoa, Italy; died Madrid, Spain
x1948-654
Information
Title
Sibyl Attended by a Genius Seated on a Cloud
Dates
mid–1550s
Maker
Medium
Pen and brown ink over traces of black chalk
Dimensions
40.1 × 28.2 cm (15 13/16 × 11 1/8 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
x1948-654
Reference Numbers
Gibbons 95
Culture
Type
Materials
Subject
Meatyard, London; purchased in 1929 by Dan Fellows Platt, stamp (L. 750a) verso, lower left on mount, in black.;
From Finch College, “Drawings of Luca Cambiaso”: dated ca. 1555/59, (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)., Vol. 1: p. 198, no. 637 (illustrated in Vol. 2 under the same catalog number)
- 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)., 120n
- 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. 62
- Jonathan Bober, Luca Cambiaso 1527-1585, (Milano: Silvana, 2006).
- 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. 44, cat. no. 17; p. 45 (illus.); p. 46 (verso illus.); p. 257-258, app. no. 86; p. 258 (illus.)
