
AT-00004488
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Four Sketches of Two Women
Inscriptions
Recto, lower left corner, red ink stamp: LLC, red ink stamp: CARLO PRAYER
Provenance
Captain Carlo Prayer (died 1900), Milan [Lugt 2044]. Sold by William Schab Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute, 1987.
Exhibition history
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Dreams and Echoes: Drawings and Sculpture in the David and Celia Hilliard Collection", October 20, 2013 - February 16, 2014, pp. 54-55, 212, cat. 16 (ill.), cat. by Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Melissa Gustin
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jean Baptiste Joseph Wicar / French, 1762-1834
- Date
- n.d.
- Medium
- Black chalk and graphite, on ivory laid writing paper
- Dimensions
- 24.3 × 18.3 cm (9 5/8 × 7 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- graphite
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Julius Lewis Endowment, and Celia and David Hilliard Endowment
- Accession no.
- 1987.188
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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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