Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00004214Cavalry Skirmish (recto); Architectural Sketch (verso)
Provenance
Baron Macartney, to 1806; Macartney family, to 1854. Frederick R. Aikman; sold, Puttick & Simpson, London, Mar. 14, 1913, part of lot 114, to William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower center, 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.
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. 248, no. 322 (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
- 1558/59
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper (recto), and pen and brown ink on ivory laid paper (verso)
- Dimensions
- 18.3 × 26.4 cm (7 1/4 × 10 7/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- ink with wash
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 1922.3048
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