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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Marcus Curtius Leaping into the Abyss
    Francesco Salviati. Marcus Curtius Leaping into the Abyss, 1555/63. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00003486

    Marcus Curtius Leaping into the Abyss

    by Francesco Salviati

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago
    Exhibition history

    Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago," Apr. 12-June 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), p. 219, no. 282 (ill.).

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Art Institute of Chicago publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Art Institute of Chicago is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Francesco de'Rossi, called Salviati / Italian, 1510-1563
    Date
    1555/63
    Medium
    Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, heightened with white gouache, with traces of black chalk, on oval-shaped tan laid paper, edge mounted on tan wove paper, laid down on ivory wove card
    Dimensions
    6.4 × 10.7 cm (2 9/16 × 4 1/4 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    ink with wash
    Place
    Italy
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
    Accession no.
    1922.504

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