Group of Figures (recto) Fragment of a Female Head (verso)

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), pp. 241-42, no. 314 (recto and verso ill.).

Quick Overview

Artist: Niccolò Martinelli da Pesaro, called Il Trometta / Italian, c. 1540-1611
Date: 1560/1611
Medium: Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, with black chalk and touches of graphite, heightened with lead white (partially oxidized) (verso), Red and brown and black and white chalk, with graphite (recto) on blue laid paper
Dimensions: 27.8 × 17.5 cm (11 × 6 15/16 in.)
Type: Drawing
Classification: ink and wash
Place: Italy
Department: Prints and Drawings
Credit line: The Charles Deering Collection
Accession no.: 1927.2718

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.