A Shepherd (Study for “Il Voto”) (recto); Woman Holding a Baby (Study for “Il Voto”) (verso)

Provenance

Senator (likely Alfredo) Baccelli, Rome, by 1932 [Tomaso Sillani 1932]. Private collection, Italy, since the 1950s [according to Kate Ganz]. Kate Ganz, New York, from 2011; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2020.

A Shepherd (Study for “Il Voto”) (recto); Woman Holding a Baby (Study for “Il Voto”) (verso)

Francesco Paolo Michetti

c. 1883

Accession Number

257842

Medium

Pastel, with wet brush (recto), and pastel (verso) on brown wove paper

Dimensions

69.5 × 42.3 cm (27 3/8 × 16 11/16 in.)

Classification

drawings (visual works)

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Margaret Day Blake Endowment Fund