About This Artwork

Piero di Cosimo
Italian, 1462-1521

Standing Figure Leaning on a Staff, c. 1510

Pen and brown ink on tan laid paper, edge-mounted to cream wove paper; framing lines in pen and brown ink on all four sides
83 x 49 mm
The Clarence Buckingham Collection, 1989.186

McCullagh & Giles 249

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

The Art Institute of Chicago, "New Accessions," December 1, 1989-June 8, 1990.

New York, The Frick Collection, "From Pontormo to Seurat: Drawings Recently Acquired by The Art Institute of Chicago," April 23-July 7, 1991, n.p., cat. 2; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, September 10, 1991-January 5, 1992.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago," April 10-July 22, 1997.

Publication History

R. Langton Douglas, Piero di Cosimo (Chicago, 1946).

Maria Bacci, Piero di Cosimo (Milan, 1966).

Karel G. Boon, "Een studieblad toegeschreven aan Pieor di Cosimo," Bulletin Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, 17 (1969), pp. 159-70.

Gigetta Dalli Regoli, "Piero Di Cosimo, disegni noti e ignoti, 1," Critica d'Arte, 20 (1974), pp. 49-65.

Giulio Bolaffi, Dizionario Enciclopedia Bolaffi dei Pittori e degli Incisori Italiani, vol. 9, Turin, 1975.

Maria Grazia Vaccari, "Maestri Toscani del Quattrocento," Biblioteca di Disegni, vol. 18, Florence, 1976.

William T. Griswold, The Drawings of Piero di Cosimo, unpublished Ph.D. thesis, The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, 1988.

Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura M. Giles, Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1997), no. 249.

Ownership History

Sold, Sotheby’s, London, March 23, 1971, lot 37, to Miss Y. Tan Bunzl. The Honorable Robert Gathorne-Hardy; sold, Sotheby’s, London, November 24, 1976, lot 8. British Rail Pension Fund; sold by Lexbourne Ltd., London, to the Art Institute, 1989.