The Deluge

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Prints and Drawings

c. 1540s

Battista Franco
Italian, c. 1510-1561

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Battista Franco
Title: The Deluge
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.: 1540–1549
Medium: Engraving over etching in black on ivory laid paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed verso lower left, in graphite: “A- / P. HZ” (?)
Dimensions: Plate: 26.6 × 42.5 cm (10 1/2 × 16 3/4 in.); Sheet: 27.2 × 42.9 cm (10 3/4 × 16 15/16 in.)
Credit Line: The Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston Endowment Fund
Reference Number: 2021.166
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Sold, Gonnelli Casa d’Aste, Florence, June 14, 2012, lot 69. Private collection, France. Sold by Gillis Goldman Fine Art, Brussels, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2021.

Bartsch Vol. XV, p. 155, no. 3 II/IV

Bartsch, illustrated vol. 32, p. 249

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