Cavalry Skirmish (recto); Architectural Sketch (verso)

Prints and Drawings

1558/59

Giorgio Vasari
Italian, 1511-1574

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Giorgio Vasari
Title: Cavalry Skirmish (recto); Architectural Sketch (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.: 1558–1559
Medium: Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper (recto), and pen and brown ink on ivory laid paper (verso)
Dimensions: 18.3 × 26.4 cm (7 1/4 × 10 7/16 in.)
Credit Line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1922.3048
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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), p. 248, no. 322 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago,” Apr. 12-June 22, 1997.

Baron Macartney, to 1806; Macartney family, to 1854. Frederick R. Aikman; sold, Puttick & Simpson, London, Mar. 14, 1913, part of lot 114, to William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower center, in black]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922 [stamp (Lugt 1230b), verso, center on mount, in black].

McCullagh & Giles 322

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