Cavalry Skirmish (recto); Architectural Sketch (verso)

Provenance

Baron Macartney, to 1806; Macartney family, to 1854. Frederick R. Aikman; sold, Puttick & Simpson, London, Mar. 14, 1913, part of lot 114, to William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower center, 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].

Cavalry Skirmish (recto); Architectural Sketch (verso)

Giorgio Vasari

1558/59

Accession Number

85825

Medium

Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper (recto), and pen and brown ink on ivory laid paper (verso)

Dimensions

18.3 × 26.4 cm (7 1/4 × 10 7/16 in.)

Classification

ink with wash

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection