Two Figures Ascending

Provenance

Unknown Italian collector, early-mid-nineteenth-century [script (Lugt 3005f), verso, lower left on mount, in graphite]. Sold, Puttick & Simpson, London, May 15, 1914, part of lot 85, to 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 on mount, in black].

Two Figures Ascending

Follower of Luca Cambiaso

1560/70

Accession Number

84617

Medium

Pen and brown ink over traces of graphite, heightened with lead white (partially oxidized), on tan laid paper, laid down on blue laid paper

Dimensions

19.7 × 23.4 cm (7 13/16 × 9 1/4 in.)

Classification

pen and ink drawings

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection