Rape of Proserpina

Prints and Drawings

1550/59

Unknown Artist
Italian, mid-16th century

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Unknown Northern Italian
Title: Rape of Proserpina
Origin: Italy
Date: 1550–1559
Medium: Pen and black ink with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white (oxidized), on lunette-shaped cream laid paper prepared with yellow wash, squared in graphite, laid down on cream laid card
Dimensions: 372 × 250 mm
Credit Line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1922.923
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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. 304-05, no. 409 (ill.).

McCullagh & Giles 409

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