Standing Figure Leaning on a Staff

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c. 1510

Piero di Cosimo
Italian, 1462-1521

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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 x 49 mm
Credit Line: Clarence Buckingham Collection
Reference Number: 1989.186

R. Langton Douglas, Piero di Cosimo (Chicago, 1946).
Maria Bacci, Piero di Cosimo (Milan, 1966).
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.
Giulio Bolaffi, Dizionario Enciclopedia Bolaffi dei Pittori e degli Incisori Italiani, vol. 9, Turin, 1975.
Maria Grazia Vaccari, “Maestri Toscani del Quattrocento,” Biblioteca di Disegni, vol. 18, Florence, 1976.
William T. Griswold, The Drawings of Piero di Cosimo, unpublished Ph.D. thesis, The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, 1988.
Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura M. Giles, Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1997), no. 249.

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. The Honorable 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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