Study for a Painted Frieze

Provenance

Sold, Christie’s, London, 6 December 1988, "Old Master Drawings," lot 38. Sold, Christie’s, Rome, 19 November 1990, "Disegni Antichi e Miniature Indiane," lot 147. Sold by Nissman, Abromson, Ltd., Brookline, Mass., to the Art Institute, 1994.

Study for a Painted Frieze

Flaminio Allegrini

1625/27

Accession Number

129764

Medium

Pen and brown and gray ink, with brush and brown wash and red chalk wash, with traces of lead white (partially discolored), on tan laid paper, laid down on cream laid card

Dimensions

14.5 × 25.6 cm (5 3/4 × 10 1/8 in.)

Classification

ink or chalk wash

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Sandra Grung Fund