Standing Figure Leaning on a Staff

Provenance

Sold, Sotheby’s, London, March 23, 1971, lot 37, to Miss Y. Tan Bunzl. 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.

Standing Figure Leaning on a Staff

Piero di Cosimo

c. 1510

Accession Number

74169

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

8.3 × 4.9 cm (3 5/16 × 1 15/16 in.)

Classification

pen and ink drawings

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Clarence Buckingham Collection