Souls in Purgatory

between late 17th and early 18th century

Alonso Cano Spanish, 1601-1667

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Title Souls in Purgatory

Artwork Date between late 17th and early 18th century

Artist Alonso Cano

Life Dates 1601-1667

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Spanish

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Pen and brush and black ink and gray wash on cream-yellow paper

Dimensions Sheet: 6 3/4 × 5 inches (17.1 × 12.7 cm)

Classification Drawings

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 09.1SDR47

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Inscriptions Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, verso, across upper galf: Cano (Alonso ou Alexis) né a Gren[a?] [cut off] | le 19 Mars 1601 mort le 9 Octobr[e?] | 1667. Elève de Pacheco Francisco à Seville, de Juan del Castillo [e?] [cut off] | d'Herrera | Dessin acheté 10,40 a Séville en | 1858 le 10 Décembre. | h = 0"', 165 L = 0"', 136 | C. Gasc [calligraphic swirls added beneath name] Inscribed, in pencil, lower right: Cano, Alonso souls in | Purgatory Inscribed, in pencil, lower center, 278. Inscribed, in pencil, lower left: no 47

Marks Stamp, in blue, lower left edge: [unidentified collector] Stamp, in purple, verso, lower right: Peoli (Lugt 2020)

Provenance

unidentified collector. Charles Gasc (Paris, France)

January 17, 1865, possibly in Gasc sale (Paris, France)

J.J. Peoli (New York, New York, USA)

May 8, 1894, sold by (American Art Association, New York, New York, USA) no. 132 (as by Alonso Cano). James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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school of Alonso Cano, Souls in Purgatory, between late 17th and early 18th century, pen and brush and black ink and gray wash on cream-yellow paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1SDR47.