Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00004594Study for a Ceiling Decoration, with Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well (recto); Study for a Ceiling Decoration (verso)
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto, upper left (inverted), in pen and brown ink: "Fontana Prospero"; inscribed verso, upper left, in graphite (in Gurley hand): "P. Fontana / 1512-1597"; center right, in pen and brown ink: "F"; lower center, in pen and black ink (in Gurley hand): "Prospero Fontana 1512-1597"
Provenance
G. Vallardi [stamp (Lugt 1223), recto, upper left, in blue]. J. J. Lindman [stamp (Lugt 1479a), recto, lower right, in purple]. William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower right, and verso, lower left, in black]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922 [stamp (Lugt 1230b), verso, lower left, in black].
Exhibition history
Oberlin, Ohio, Allen Memorial Art Museum, "From Studio to Studiolo: Florentine Draftsmanship under the first Medici Grand Dukes," Oct. 14-Dec. 1, 1991. New Haven, Conn., Yale University Art Gallery, "The Ager of Giorgio Vasari: Art, Literature, and History at the Medicean Court," Apr. 14-May 15, 1994. Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago," Apr. 12-June 22, 1997. Detroit Institute of Arts, "The Medici, Michelangelo, and the Art of Late Renaissance Florence," Mar. 16-June 8, 2003, cat. 211, p. 348 (ill.); also the Art Institute of Chicago, 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. 249-50, no. 324 (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
- 1569/73
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, on cream laid paper, squared in graphite and red chalk (recto and verso)
- Dimensions
- 36.3 × 23.7 cm (14 5/16 × 9 3/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- ink with wash
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 1922.42
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