Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00003476Study for Allegory of Two Quartieri of Florence
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto, lower center on mount, in pen and black ink: "Cherubino Alberti"
Provenance
Dr. William Ogle (1827-1905); sold, Sotheby's, London, Feb. 6, 2013, to William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower right, in black]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922 [stamp (Lugt 1230b), verso, center on mount, in black].
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago," Apr. 12-June 22, 1997. Art Institute of Chicago,"The Medici Michelangelo, and the Art of Late Renaissance Florence," Nov. 9, 2002-Feb. 2, 2003.
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. 248-349, no. 323 (ill.).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Giorgio Vasari / Italian, 1511-1574
- Date
- 1563/65
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, on ivory laid paper, laid down on cream wove card
- Dimensions
- 21.4 × 16.1 cm (8 7/16 × 6 3/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 1922.468
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