Battle Scene

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Prints and Drawings

n.d.

Italian, Neapolitan or Genoese
Mid/late 16th century

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Unknown Neapolitan
Title: Battle Scene
Place: Italy (Artist's nationality)
Date: 1560–1600
Medium: Pen and iron gall ink with brush and brown wash, on cream laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed verso, lower center on mount, in graphite: "Antonio Tempesta"
Dimensions: 15.7 × 17.7 cm (6 3/16 × 7 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Marie Louise Pritchard
Reference Number: 1960.833
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Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings of the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries (Chicago, 1979), p. 85, no. 3B6, as Anonymous, Sixteenth century, Genoa.
Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura M. Giles, Italian Drawings Before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1997), p. 290, no. 385 (ill.).
Pierluigi Leone de Castris, “Avvio a Francesco Curia disegnatore,” Prospettiva, 39 (1984), pp. 11-24.

Given by Marie Louise Pritchard to the Art Institute, 1960.

McCullagh & Giles 385

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