Museum Exhibition
Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection
Art Institute of Chicago
January 25, 2020 – October 12, 2020
A collection of extraordinary breadth and quality tells the medium’s history.
Exhibition artworks
Representative work
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Comtesse Charles d’Agoult (born Marie de Flavigny) and Her Daughter Claire d’Agoult
1849
Graphite, heightened with white opaque watercolor, with touches of yellow watercolor, on off-white wove paper, lined to secondary wove paper
Primary support: 48.5 × 39.9 cm (19 1/8 × 15 3/4 in.); Secondary support: 49.9 × 41.5 cm (19 11/16 × 16 3/8 in.)
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Jacques Louis David
Nude Soldiers Gesticulating with Their Weapons (recto); Two Drapery Studies for the Figure of Tatius (verso)
1796/97
Black chalk and pen and black ink, with touches of white chalk (recto) and black chalk, with touches of red and white chalk (verso) on cream laid paper, pieced
40.9 × 55 cm (16 1/8 × 21 11/16 in.)
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Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
Punchinello Collapses on the Road, from the series Divertimento per li regazzi (Entertainment for Children)
c. 1791
Pen and brown ink and brush and brown washes, over traces of charcoal, on off-white laid paper, with framing lines in pen and brown ink
36 × 47.5 cm (14 3/16 × 18 3/4 in.)
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Francesco Fontebasso
Adoration of the Shepherds
c. 1750
Pen and brown ink and brush and black ink, with black and red ink washes, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper
46.4 × 33.5 cm (18 5/16 × 13 1/4 in.)
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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
The Head of a Young Man in Profile to the Left (recto); Studies of Allegorical Figures (verso)
1749/50 (recto); 1750/53 (verso)
Red chalk, with touches of white chalk (recto and verso), on blue laid paper with blind incising around recto
22.7 × 24.2 cm (8 15/16 × 9 9/16 in.)
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Giorgio Vasari
The Conversion of Saint Paul
1554
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, with splatters of gray, green and pink paint over black chalk, squared in black chalk, on cream laid paper, with framing lines in pen and brown ink, laid down on secondary paper
18.2 × 26.7 cm (7 3/16 × 10 9/16 in.)
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Giorgio Vasari
Allegory of Eternity
1544/45
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk, heightened with white gouache, on blue laid paper, squared for transfer in red chalk
28.3 × 21.9 cm (11 3/16 × 8 5/8 in.)
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