About This Artwork

Italian, Neapolitan or Genoese
Mid/late 16th century

Battle Scene, n.d.

Pen and iron gall ink with brush and brown wash, on cream laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper
157 x 177 mm
Inscribed verso, lower center on mount, in graphite: "Antonio Tempesta"
Gift of Marie Louise Pritchard, 1960.833

McCullagh & Giles 385

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings of the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries (Chicago, 1979), p. 85, no. 3B6, as Anonymous, Sixteenth century, Genoa.

Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura M. Giles, Italian Drawings Before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1997), p. 290, no. 385 (ill.).

Pierluigi Leone de Castris, "Avvio a Francesco Curia disegnatore," Prospettiva, 39 (1984), pp. 11-24.

Ownership History

Given by Marie Louise Pritchard to the Art Institute, 1960.