Road to Cavalry

Inscriptions

Inscribed recto, lower center on mount, in pen and brown ink (in J. Richardson, Sr.'s hand): "Bassano"; inscribed verso, upper center on mount, in pen and brown ink (in J. Richardson, Sr.'s hand): "N.60., G G / .24. / S."; center on mount, in pen and brown ink (in John Barnard's hand): "This picture is in the Gallery of the Arch Duke Leopold / as may be seen in the Book of Prints of that Gallery, published / by David Teniers. I have the small picture. J: B."; upper center on mount, in pen and brown ink: "JB. No. 649. / 16-1/2 by 12-1/4"

Provenance

Unidentified stamp [see Lugt 474; recto, lower left, in black]. John Richardson, Sr. [stamp (Lugt 2184), recto, lower right, in black; script recto, lower center, in pen and brown ink; and (Lugt 2984) verso, upper center on mount, in pen and brown ink]. John Barnard [script (Lugt 1419) recto, lower right on mount and verso, center on mount, in pen and brown ink, and script (Lugt 1420) verso, upper center and right center on mount, in pen and brown ink] Sold, Puttick & Simpson, London, Feb. 12, 1915, to William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower left and verso, center on mount, in black]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922 [stamp (Lugt 1230b), verso, center of mount, in black].

Publications

Ludwig Baldass, "Some Remarks on Francesco Bassano and his Historical Function," Art Quarterly 12 (1949), pp. 199-219. W. R. Rearick, "Jacopo Bassano: 1568-9," Burlington Magazine 104 (1962): 5224-33. Alessandro Ballarin, "Introduzione ad un catalogo dei disegni di Jacopo Bassano," Arte Veneta 23 (1969), pp. 85-114. W. R. Rearick, "Jacopo Bassano as Draftsman," Drawing 15 (1993), pp. 1-7. Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura M. Giles, Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1997), pp. 26-27, no. 23 (ill.).

Quick Overview

Artist: Leandro Bassano / Italian, 1557-1622
Date: c. 1585
Medium: Black chalk and charcoal heightened with white chalk, on tan laid paper, laid down on cream wove board
Dimensions: 42.2 × 30.9 cm (16 5/8 × 12 3/16 in.)
Type: Drawing
Classification: chalk
Place: Italy
Department: Prints and Drawings
Credit line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Accession no.: 1922.5387

More by Leandro Bassano in museum collections

The Dead Christ with Angels
Leandro Bassano
c. 1580 · Painting
Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of ArtAT-00009722
The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence
Leandro Bassano
1557–1622 · Drawing
Public collection via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00019626

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.