About This Artwork

after Giorgio Vasari
Italian, 1511-1574

Study for Ceres, c. 1556

Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, with traces of black chalk and red chalk wash, on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper
154 x 189 mm
The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1995.15.5

McCullagh & Giles 683

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura M. Giles, Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago. A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1997), pp. 390-91, no. 683 (ill.).

Ownership History

John Jacob Lindman (1854-1928), Chicago, stamp (Lugt 1479a), recto, lower right, in purple. William F. E. Gurley (1854-1943), Chicago; bequeathed to the Art Institute as part of the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1943 (accessioned 1995).