Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00006018Young Warrior, Seen from Behind, Lifting a Curtain
Provenance
W. Bates [stamp (Lugt 2604) recto, lower right, in red]. Sold, Sotheby's, London, Jan. 20, 1887, lot 339, to Rosenheim. Sold, Christie’s, London, July 10, 2001, lot 41. Sold, C.G. Boerner/Artemis, New York, to Richard and Mary L. Gray, Chicago, Feb. 2002; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.
Exhibition history
Rome, Villa Medici, Francesco Salviati (1510–1563): o la bella maniera, 1998, pp. 188–89, cat. 61. Art Institute of Chicago, Gray Collection: Seven Centuries of Art, Sept. 25, 2010–Jan. 2, 2011, cat. 3 (ill.). The Art Institute of Chicago, "Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection", January 25 - May 10, 2020, p. 131, GC 9, traveled to New York, The Morgan Library, February 19 - June 6, 2021, and Berkeley CA, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, August 4 - November 28, 2021.
Publications
François Borne, "A Soldier Seen from Behind," Old Master Drawings and Paintings, exh. cat. (C.G. Boerner/Artemis, 2004), under cat. 1, fig. 1.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Francesco Salviati / Italian, 1510–1563
- Date
- 1550/55
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, and brush and brown wash, heightened with white gouache, over black chalk, on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 43.2 × 28 cm (17 1/16 × 11 1/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- drawings (visual works)
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
- Accession no.
- 2019.864
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