Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00006191Allegory of Eternity
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto, in pen and brown ink: E T E R N I T / A S
Provenance
Private collection, by 2015 [Härb 2015]; sold through Didier Aaron, New York, to the Gray Collection Trust, Chicago, Dec. 15, 2016; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.
Exhibition history
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection", January 25 - May 10, 2020, p. 27, cat. 6, p. 130, GC 7, 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
Florian Härb, The Drawings of Giorgio Vasari (1511–1574), Rome: Ugo Bozzi Editore, 2015, p. 266, no. 118a (ill.).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Giorgio Vasari / Italian, 1511–1574
- Date
- 1544/45
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk, heightened with white gouache, on blue laid paper, squared for transfer in red chalk
- Dimensions
- 28.3 × 21.9 cm (11 3/16 × 8 5/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- drawings (visual works)
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
- Accession no.
- 2019.871
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