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Standing Figure Leaning on a Staff
Provenance
Sold, Sotheby’s, London, March 23, 1971, lot 37, to Miss Y. Tan Bunzl. Robert Gathorne-Hardy; sold, Sotheby’s, London, November 24, 1976, lot 8. British Rail Pension Fund; sold by Lexbourne Ltd., London, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1989.
Exhibition history
The Art Institute of Chicago, "New Accessions," December 1, 1989-June 8, 1990. New York, The Frick Collection, "From Pontormo to Seurat: Drawings Recently Acquired by The Art Institute of Chicago," April 23-July 7, 1991, n.p., cat. 2; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, September 10, 1991-January 5, 1992. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago," April 10-July 22, 1997.
Publications
Karel G. Boon, "Een studieblad toegeschreven aan Pieor di Cosimo," Bulletin Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, 17 (1969), pp. 159-70. Gigetta Dalli Regoli, "Piero Di Cosimo, disegni noti e ignoti, 1," Critica d'Arte, 20 (1974), pp. 49-65. 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. 191-92, no. 249 (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Piero di Cosimo / Italian, 1462-1521
- Date
- c. 1510
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink on tan laid paper, edge-mounted to cream wove paper; framing lines in pen and brown ink on all four sides
- Dimensions
- 8.3 × 4.9 cm (3 5/16 × 1 15/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Accession no.
- 1989.186
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Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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