Francesco Allegrini
Italian, 1615/20-after 1679
Study for a Painted Frieze, 1625/1627
Pen and brown and gray ink, with brush and brown wash and red chalk wash, with traces of lead white (partially discolored), on tan laid paper, laid down on cream laid card
145 x 256 mm
Sandra Grung Fund, 1994.98
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
New York, Nissman, Abromson & Co., "Master Drawings, 16th-19th Century," 1994, cat. 13.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Broad Spectrum: Color on Paper, Past and Present," September 12–October 31, 1999, hors. cat.
Publication History
Simonetta Prosperi Valenti Rodinò, "Allegrini: Francesco o Flaminio?" Nuove ricerche in margine alla mostra 'Da Leonoardo a Rembrandt: Disegni della Biblioteca Reale di Torino:' Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi Vigni di Madama Reale (Turin, 1991), pp. 232-33 (ill.).
Ownership History
Sold, Christie’s, London, 6 December 1988, "Old Master Drawings," lot 38. Sold, Christie’s, Rome, 19 November 1990, "Disegni Antichi e Miniature Indiane," lot 147. Sold by Nissman, Abromson, Ltd., Brookline, Mass., to the Art Institute, 1994.