An Allegory of Bologna

Description

The coat-of-arms of Bologna is suspended in a fruit tree below which stand Mercury and Minerva; the river god Reno sits to the right with the town of Bologna behind him.

Provenance

Sold, Puttick & Simpson, London, Feb. 12, 1915 [stamp verso, lower right, and verso, center of mount, in purple] 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), recto, lower right, and verso, center of mount, in black].

An Allegory of Bologna

Alessandro Algardi

1630/39

Accession Number

3163

Medium

Black chalk on ivory laid paper, partially laid down on ivory laid paper

Dimensions

36.5 × 50.5 cm (14 3/8 × 19 15/16 in.)

Classification

graphite

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection