Young Warrior, Seen from Behind, Lifting a Curtain

Prints and Drawings

1550/55

Francesco Salviati
Italian, 1510–1563

Throughout his career, Salviati produced drawings for various purposes and in a variety of media that display artifice and stylistic f lair. This sheet is notable for its deftly applied brown wash, including thick strokes, quick accents, and sinuous contours. The result is eloquently pictorial, which suggests that Salviati may have intended it as an independent work of art.

Salviati’s bravura graphic performance is matched by his deft interpretation of the subject, especially in the balletic pose of the young soldier balanced on one foot as he gingerly lifts the curtain.

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Artist: Francesco Salviati
Title: Young Warrior, Seen from Behind, Lifting a Curtain
Place: Italy (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1550–1555
Medium: Pen and brown ink, and brush and brown wash, heightened with white gouache, over black chalk, on cream laid paper
Dimensions: 43.2 × 28 cm (17 1/16 × 11 1/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
Reference Number: 2019.864
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François Borne, “A Soldier Seen from Behind,” Old Master Drawings and Paintings, exh. cat. (C.G. Boerner/Artemis, 2004), under cat. 1, fig. 1.

Rome, Villa Medici, Francesco Salviati (1510–1563): o la bella maniera, 1998, pp. 188–89, cat. 61.
Art Institute of Chicago, Gray Collection: Seven Centuries of Art, Sept. 25, 2010–Jan. 2, 2011, cat. 3 (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection”, January 25 - May 10, 2020, p. 131, GC 9, traveled to New York, The Morgan Library, February 19 - June 6, 2021, and Berkeley CA, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, August 4 - November 28, 2021.

W. Bates [stamp (Lugt 2604) recto, lower right, in red]. Sold, Sotheby’s, London, Jan. 20, 1887, lot 339, to Rosenheim. Sold, Christie’s, London, July 10, 2001, lot 41. Sold, C.G. Boerner/Artemis, New York, to Richard and Mary L. Gray, Chicago, Feb. 2002; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.

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