
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00006017Study of a Nude Seen from the Back, and Two Studies of an Arm (recto); Nude Seen from the Back, with Subsidiary Studies of a Shoulder and Leg (verso)
Provenance
Prof. Telémaco Susini; Enrique Telémaco Susini [stamp (not in Lugt) recto, lower left, in blue]. Sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Apr. 6, 1990, lot 2. Sold, Christie's, New York, Jan. 28, 1999, lot 32, to Richard and Mary L. Gray, Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.
Exhibition history
Mantua, Palazzo del Te, Perino del Vaga: Tra Raffaello e Michelangelo, 2001, p. 222 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, Gray Collection: Seven Centuries of Art, Sept. 25, 2010–Jan. 2, 2011, cat. 2 (ill.). The Art Institute of Chicago, "Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection", January 25 - May 10, 2020, p. 130, GC 4, traveled to Berkeley, CA, August 4 - November 28, 2021.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Perino del Vaga / Italian, 1501–1547
- Date
- c. 1528
- Medium
- Pen and iron gall ink (recto) and pen and iron gall ink, with touches of red chalk (verso) on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 28.1 × 19.3 cm (11 1/8 × 7 5/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
- Accession no.
- 2019.856
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