Standing Figure Leaning on a Staff

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Prints and Drawings

c. 1510

Piero di Cosimo
Italian, 1462-1521

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Piero di Cosimo
Title: Standing Figure Leaning on a Staff
Origin: Italy
Date: 1508–1512
Medium: 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
Dimensions: 83 × 49 mm
Credit Line: Clarence Buckingham Collection
Reference Number: 1989.186
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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.
Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura M. Giles, Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1997), pp. 191-92, no. 249 (ill.).

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.

Sold, Sotheby’s, London, March 23, 1971, lot 37, to Miss Y. Tan Bunzl. 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 of Chicago, 1989.

McCullagh & Giles 249

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