Study for Cosimo I Reorganizing the Tuscan Troops

Exhibition history

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago," April 10, 1997-July 22, 1997.

Publications

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. 45-6, no. 50 (ill.).

Quick Overview

Artist: Ludovico Buti / Italian, c. 1550-1611
Date: 1589
Medium: Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white, over traces of black chalk, on tan laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper
Dimensions: 41.5 × 27.1 cm (16 3/8 × 10 11/16 in.)
Type: Drawing
Classification: pen and ink drawings
Place: Italy
Department: Prints and Drawings
Credit line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Accession no.: 1922.5408

Provenance

The Art Institute of Chicago’s open-access data does not include an ownership history for this work. See the museum’s page for this work.

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