The Deluge

Provenance

Sold, Gonnelli Casa d’Aste, Florence, June 14, 2012, lot 69. Private collection, France. Sold by Gillis Goldman Fine Art, Brussels, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2021.

The Deluge

Battista Franco

c. 1540s

Accession Number

260506

Medium

Engraving over etching in black on ivory laid paper

Dimensions

Plate: 26.6 × 42.5 cm (10 1/2 × 16 3/4 in.); Sheet: 27.2 × 42.9 cm (10 3/4 × 16 15/16 in.)

Classification

print

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

The Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston Endowment Fund