About This Artwork

Domenico Quaglio II
German, 1787-1837

Monk in the Ruins of a Monastery, 1820/1830

Pen and black ink with brush and brown wash, squared in graphite, on paper
313 x 406 mm
Restricted gift of Mary and Leigh Block, 1965.21

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Cambridge, Mass., Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, "German Master Drawings of the 19th Century," October 4-November 18, 1972, cat. 69; also traveled to New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 14, 1972-January 28, 1973; Ottawa, The National Gallery of Canada, February 23-April 1; and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, April 26-June 3, 1973.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 122-123, cat. 54 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Imaging the Body: from Fragment to Total Display," January 30-April 28, 1992, p. 49.

Publication History

Brigitte Trost, Domenico Quaglio 1787-1837: Monographie und Werkverzeichnis (Munich, 1973), pp. 129-130, no. 138b, fig. 182.

Ownership History

Sold by C. G. Boerner, Dusseldorf, to the Art Institute, 1965.