Study for the Death of Saint Peter Martyr

Provenance

Dr. C. D. Ginsburg [stamps (Lugt 1145), recto, lower right and verso, lower left on mount, in black]; sold, Sotheby's, London, July 2, 1915, part of lot 8, to Maggs Bros., London. William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower left, in black]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922 [stamp (Lugt 1230b), verso, lower center on mount, in black].

Study for the Death of Saint Peter Martyr

Circle of Giorgio Vasari

c. 1571

Accession Number

95665

Medium

Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, over traces of black chalk, on cream laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper

Dimensions

20.8 × 13 cm (8 1/4 × 5 1/8 in.)

Classification

ink with wash

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection