Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00004460Two Standing Female Figures (Studies after Classical Statuary)
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto, lower right, in pen and brown ink: "R(...)o" ?; recto, lower center on mount, in pen and brown ink: "Boscoli"; verso, upper center on mount, in graphite and pen and brown ink: "And: Boscoli. after y' Antique./ Purchased at the Mr. Moser's Sale Apl. 1783"
Provenance
George Michael Moser (1706-1783, not in Lugt), London [inscription]; sold, Hutchins, London, March 17-27, 1783, Moser sale. Sold by Christopher Comer, Ky. and London, to the Art Institute, 1985.
Exhibition history
New York, The Frick Collection, "From Pontormo to Seurat: Drawings Recently Acquired by The Art Institute of Chicago," Apr. 23-July 7, 1991, n.p., cat. 6; also the Art Institute of Chicago, Sept. 10, 1991-January 5, 1992. 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. 38, no. 40 (ill.).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Andrea Boscoli / Italian, c. 1560-1608
- Date
- 1580/84
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, over traces of black chalk, on buff laid paper, laid down on ivory laid card
- Dimensions
- 19.7 × 13.8 cm (7 13/16 × 5 7/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. William O. Hunt
- Accession no.
- 1985.389
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