Coronation of Otto the Great in the Church of Saint'Ambrogio, Milan

Inscriptions

Inscribed recto, l.r., in pen: Gio Christ/Storer, F/Alemane/1650

Exhibition history

Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 33, cat. 8 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, "The Thrill of the Chase: Drawings for the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," March 15-June 15, 2014, no cat.

Publications

Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), p. 33, cat. 8 (ill.).

Quick Overview

Artist: Johann Christoph Storer / German, 1620-1671
Date: 1650
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, with graphite, on cream laid paper, incised for transfer with graphite, laid down on cream paper, laid down on cream board edged with gold
Dimensions: Primary support: 23 × 31.1 cm (9 1/16 × 12 1/4 in.); Secondary support: 24.1 × 32.3 cm (9 1/2 × 12 3/4 in.)
Type: Drawing
Classification: drawings (visual works)
Place: Germany
Department: Prints and Drawings
Credit line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Accession no.: 2013.1030

Provenance

J. P. Zoomer (died 1724), Amsterdam [stamp (Lugt 1511) recto, lower right, in black]. Sir James Knowles (died 1908); by descent; sold, Sotheby’s, London, July 5, 2000, lot 32, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA.; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.

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