Man Tugging on Sheet: Study for the Entombment [Sacristy of the Certosa di San Martino, Naples, 1596]

Provenance

Dr. C. D. Ginsburg [stamp (Lugt 1145), verso, lower left on mount, in black]; sold, Sotheby's, London, July 20, 1915, part of lot 2, as "Andrea del Sarto, Man holding a Cloth," to Maggs Bros., London; William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower right, in black]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922 [stamp (Lugt 1230b), verso center of mount, in black].

Man Tugging on Sheet: Study for the Entombment [Sacristy of the Certosa di San Martino, Naples, 1596]

Giuseppe Cesari, called Cavaliere d'Arpino

1595/96

Accession Number

81619

Medium

Red chalk on tan laid paper, laid down on card

Dimensions

24.8 × 16.7 cm (9 13/16 × 6 5/8 in.)

Classification

chalk

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection