Crew Abandoning Ship (recto) Sketches of Corinthian Columns (verso)

Prints and Drawings

c. 1600

Lazzaro Tavarone
Italian, 1556-1641

This sheet presents a series of studies of ships in different action scenes. In the upper left, Tavarone rendered a ship in full sail with the whole crew depicted. To the right, fainter strokes render the outlines of other vessels mid-sail. In the sheet’s dramatic lower register, a vessel lilts far on its right side, while sailors bend under the weight of the items they carry off board the sinking ship. For the small, mercantile city-state of Genoa, shipwrecks were events of commercial and political consequence. They served as a reminder of the risky and uncertain fortunes of a society built on maritime trade.

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Artist: Lazzaro Tavarone
Title: Crew Abandoning Ship (recto) Sketches of Corinthian Columns (verso)
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.: 1598–1602
Medium: Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, over traces of black chalk, on cream laid paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, lower right, in pen and brown ink: "Cambiaso"; lower right, in graphite: "532 / 532"; inscribed verso, lower left, in graphite: "... 17. 7bre 1829"
Dimensions: 37.4 × 27 cm (14 3/4 × 10 11/16 in.)
Credit Line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1922.2238R
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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. 283-84, no. 372 (ill.).

Unknown Italian collector, early-mid nineteenth-century [script (Lugt 3005f), verso, lower left, in graphite]. Sold, Puttick & Simpson, London, May 15, 1914, part of lot 85, to William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower right, in black]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922 [stamp (Lugt 1230b), verso, center, in black].

McCullagh & Giles 372

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