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Monk in the Ruins of a Monastery
Provenance
Sold by C. G. Boerner, Dusseldorf, to the Art Institute, 1965.
Exhibition history
Cambridge, Mass., Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, "German Master Drawings of the 19th Century," October 4-November 18, 1972, cat. 69; also traveled to New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 14, 1972-January 28, 1973; Ottawa, The National Gallery of Canada, February 23-April 1; and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, April 26-June 3, 1973. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 122-123, cat. 54 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Imaging the Body: from Fragment to Total Display," January 30-April 28, 1992, p. 49.
Publications
Brigitte Trost, Domenico Quaglio 1787-1837: Monographie und Werkverzeichnis (Munich, 1973), pp. 129-130, no. 138b, fig. 182.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Domenico Quaglio II / German, 1787-1837
- Date
- 1820/1830
- Medium
- Pen and black ink with brush and brown wash, squared in graphite, on paper
- Dimensions
- 31.3 × 40.6 cm (12 3/8 × 16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- Germany
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by Mary and Leigh Block
- Accession no.
- 1965.21
More by Domenico Quaglio II in museum collections
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