Francesco di Simone Ferrucci
Italian, 1437-1493
Portrait of a Warrior, c.1475
Marble
16 3/8 x 12 in. (41.6 x 30.5 cm)
Ada Turnbull Hertle Endowment, 1968.2
Medieval to Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
Art Institute of Chicago, "The Search for Alexander," supplemental catalogue, 16 May - 7 September 1981, fig. D (ill).
Publication History
John Pope-Hennessy, Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Victoria and Albert Museum 1 (London, 1964), p. 176.
Art Institute of Chicago, "Reports of the Departments," Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report 1967-68, p. 18 (ill.).
"New Accessions," Apollo XCI, 96 (February 1970), pp. 161-62, no. 12 (ill.).
Ownership History
Private Collection, England [according to original dealer solicitation in curatorial file]. Sold, Sotheby’s, London, 8 July 1949, lot 2, as a "Marble Relief by Verrocchio" to McGuire for £3800. Private collection, England [according to original dealer solicitation in curatorial file]. Heim Gallery, London, by 1968. Sold by the former to the Art Institute, 1968.