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Fortitude (Study for the "Cabinet du roi" [King's Study])
Provenance
Pierre Crozat (1665-1740), Paris; sold, Paris, April 10-May 13, 1741, Crozat sale, among lots 399-410. Sold, Sotheby's, London, July 6, 1992, lot 20. Sold by Yves Mikaeloff, Paris, to the Art Institute, 1995.
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto, upper center, in brush and white gouache: "Bologne"; lower right, in pen and brown ink: "127"
Exhibition history
The Art Institute of Chicago, "In Context: Recent Acquisitions to the Regenstein Collection," February 20-April 28, 1995. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings Before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago," April 10-July 22, 1997. The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Broad Spectrum: Color on Paper, Past and Present," September 12–October 31, 1999, hors. cat.
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. 200-201, no. 258 (ill.). Suzanne Folds McCullagh, “‘A Lasting Monument:’ The Regenstein Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26, 1 (2000), p. 12. Laura M. Giles, “Fortitude (Study for the ‘Cabinet du roi’ [King’s Study]), 1541/45,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26, 1 (2000), pp. 18-19, no. 3.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Francesco Primaticcio / Italian, 1504-1570
- Date
- 1541/45
- Medium
- Brush and vermilion wash, heightened with lead white, over stylus incising, on cream laid paper toned pink, laid down on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 21.9 × 15.2 cm (8 5/8 × 6 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- wash
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation
- Accession no.
- 1995.21
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Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00005673
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