Portrait of a Warrior

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Painting and Sculpture of Europe

19th century

Artist unknown (Italian, active 19th century)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Italian
Title: Portrait of a Warrior
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.: 1800–1900
Medium: Marble
Dimensions: 41.6 × 30.5 cm (16 3/8 × 12 in.)
Credit Line: Ada Turnbull Hertle Endowment
Reference Number: 1968.2
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John Pope-Hennessy and Ronald Lightbown, Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Victoria and Albert Museum 1 (London, 1964), p. 176, under no. 147.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Reports of the Departments,” Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report 1967-68, p. 18 (ill.).
“New Accessions,” Apollo 91 (1970), pp. 161-62, no. 12 (ill.).
Nancy Lodge, “A Renaissance King in Hellenistic Guise: Verrocchio’s Reliefs for King Matthias Corvinus” in Italian Echoes in the Rocky Mountains. Papers from the 1988 Annual Conference of the American Association for Italian Studies held in Provo, Utah, ed. Sante Matteo, Cinzia Donatelli Noble and Madison U. Sowell (Salt Lake City, 1990), pp. 28, 43 n. 11, fig. 6.
Annamaria Giusti, Masters of Florence, exh. cat., Memphis International Cultural Series (WONDERS, 2004), p. 82.
Linda Pisani, Francesco di Simone Ferrucci. Itinerari di uno scultore fiorentino fra Toscana, Romagna e Montefeltro (Florence, 2007), pp. 42-43 n. 209.
Francesco Caglioti, “Andrea del Verrocchio e i profili di condottieri antichi per Mattia Corvino” in Italy and Hungary: Humanism and Art in the Erly Renaissance, ed. Péter Farbaky and Louis A. Waldman (Milan, 2011), pp. 550-51 n. 87.

Art Institute of Chicago, “The Search for Alexander,” 16 May - 7 September 1981, fig. D in supplemental catalogue.

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.

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