View of the Famous Chestnut Tree of Mount Etna, called Centum Cavalli

Provenance

Germain Seligmann, New York [his stamp; not in Lugt]; sold by Jacques Seligmann and Company, New York, to the Art Institute, 1967.

View of the Famous Chestnut Tree of Mount Etna, called Centum Cavalli

Claude-Louis Chatelet

1784

Accession Number

27603

Medium

Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, over traces of graphite, on ivory laid paper, laid down on buff laid paper

Dimensions

23.3 × 35.2 cm (9 3/16 × 13 7/8 in.)

Classification

ink or chalk wash

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Tillie C. Cohn Fund Income #2