Museum Exhibition

Catalogue of Works

Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection

Art Institute of Chicago

63 documented works

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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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Lelio Orsi

Apollo Driving the Chariot of the Sun

1544/45

Pen and black ink, with brush and brown wash, heightened with white opaque watercolor, with incising, on cream laid paper prepared with a light brown wash, laid down on thick laid paper

Primary support: 24.7 × 33.4 cm (9 3/4 × 13 3/16 in.); Secondary support: 32.2 × 40.9 cm (12 11/16 × 16 1/8 in.)

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Polidoro da Caravaggio

The Lamentation of Christ (recto and verso)

1527/35

Pen and brown ink, with small splatters of opaque green, gray and pink paint, with touches of white gouache (recto) and pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash (verso) on ivory laid paper

17.5 × 23.7 cm (6 15/16 × 9 3/8 in.)

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François Boucher

Study of a Draped Woman Leaning on a Pedestal

1759/61

Black chalk, with stumping, and white chalk on buff laid paper, laid down onto thick modern laid paperboard

Primary support: 52.3 × 36 cm (20 5/8 × 14 3/16 in.); Secondary support: 54.5 × 38.7 cm (21 1/2 × 15 1/4 in.)

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Cornelis van Poelenburgh

The Baptism of Christ

1641/67

Red chalk on cream laid paper

18.9 × 28.1 cm (7 1/2 × 11 1/8 in.)

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Pieter Cornelisz. van Slingeland

Violin Player

mid-17th century

Black chalk, ruled in pen and brown ink, on ivory laid paper

11.3 × 10.1 cm (4 1/2 × 4 in.)

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Hendrick Goltzius

Bust of a Warrior

1586/88

Black chalk, with red chalk, heightened with traces of white chalk, ruled with pen and black ink, on cream laid paper

14 × 9.8 cm (5 9/16 × 3 7/8 in.)

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Jacques de Gheyn, II

A Soldier Loading a Musket, "Ramme in Your Pouder"

1596/98

Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, and traces of black chalk on ivory laid paper, incised for transfer

26.7 × 18.4 cm (10 9/16 × 7 1/4 in.)

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Gerbrand van den Eeckhout

A Bearded Figure Wearing a Turban and Fur Coat, Half Length, Turned to the Right

c. 1670

Brush and brown ink, with touches of pen and brown ink, on cream laid paper

25.1 × 18 cm (9 15/16 × 7 1/8 in.)

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Daniel Mytens, II

Male Nude Seen from Behind

1672/88

Red chalk, heightened with white chalk, with traces of black chalk, on tan laid paper

38 × 49.2 cm (15 × 19 3/8 in.)

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Guercino

The Triumphant Hercules with the Vanquished Hydra

c. 1618

Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash on buff laid paper, ruled in pen and brown ink, laid down on paperboard

Primary support: 22.3 × 12.8 cm (8 13/16 × 5 1/16 in.); Secondary support: 22.2 × 13 cm (8 3/4 × 5 1/8 in.)

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Guercino

Landscape with a River Crossed by a Bridge, Lined with Spectators, Leading to a Building with an Overhanging Loggia with a Party of Onlookers

c. 1630

Pen and iron-gall ink, with touches of brush and brown wash, on ivory laid paper

27.1 × 41.4 cm (10 11/16 × 16 5/16 in.)

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Bernardino Lanino

Madonna and Child, a Warrior Saint (Michael?), and a Group of Worshippers

1565/70

Brush with brown and black ink and brown wash, black chalk, heightened with white, on multiple sheets of pieced, blue laid paper (now discolored).

91 × 71 cm (35 7/8 × 28 in.)

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Jacques Louis David

Head of a Woman

c. 1780

Pen and iron-gall ink on white laid paper

19 × 13.2 cm (7 1/2 × 5 1/4 in.)

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Paul Cezanne

Bather With Outstretched Arms (recto); Study of a Tree (verso)

1874/77

Graphite on cream laid paper (pieced)

17.9 × 11.1 cm (7 1/16 × 4 3/8 in.)

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Vincent van Gogh

Avenue of Pollard Birches and Poplars

March 1884

Reed pen and iron-gall ink on tan laid paper

19.2 × 26.5 cm (7 9/16 × 10 7/16 in.)

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Georges Seurat

Landscape

c. 1881

Black Conté crayon on off-white laid paper

24.9 × 31.6 cm (9 13/16 × 12 1/2 in.)

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Georges Seurat

Academic Male Nude

1877

Black Conté crayon, black chalk, and charcoal, with stumping and erasing, on cream laid paper

63.6 × 48.5 cm (25 1/16 × 19 1/8 in.)

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Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas

Study of a Singer

1878/80

Charcoal and fabricated black chalk, with touches of white chalk, on greenish gray wove paper, perimeter mounted to millboard

49.2 × 63.7 cm (19 3/8 × 25 1/8 in.)

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Odilon Redon

Primitive Being

c. 1876

Various charcoals and black chalk, with stumping, wiping, and erasing, fixed, on cream wove paper

44.5 × 36.9 cm (17 9/16 × 14 9/16 in.)

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Jean-Baptiste Isabey

Portrait of the Artist Joseph Chinard

1799/1802

Black chalk, with stumping and erasing, and touches of brush and black watercolor, heightened with gum Arabic and lead-white gouache (partially discolored), on off-white wove paper

24.9 × 19.8 cm (9 13/16 × 7 13/16 in.)

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Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

Portrait of a Young Woman

1812

Graphite on off-white wove paper

25.7 × 19.9 cm (10 1/8 × 7 7/8 in.)

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Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

The Borghese Chapel in Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome

1824

Pen and brown ink and graphite and brush and gray and brown wash, with touches of red and ocher gouache, heightened with white gouache, on cream laid paper, laid down on cream laid card, laid down on blue matboard

17 × 13.7 cm (6 3/4 × 5 7/16 in.)

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Jean Honoré Fragonard

Astolfo Sails off with Andronica and Sofrosina

early 1780s

Black chalk, with pen and brush and brown ink and brush and brown wash, on off-white laid paper

39.3 × 26.7 cm (15 1/2 × 10 9/16 in.)

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Giovanni Paolo Panini

Marcus Curtius Leaping into the Chasm

c. 1718

Pen and brown ink and iron-gall ink, brush and black and gray ink, and black chalk, on ivory laid paper, laid down on cream laminate card

27.4 × 41.8 cm (10 13/16 × 16 1/2 in.)

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Charles de La Fosse

Two Angels in Flight

1707/10

Red chalk, with touches of black chalk, heightened with white chalk, on tan laid paper

22.8 × 26.5 cm (9 × 10 7/16 in.)

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Pierre Puget

Study of Bucephalus for the Relief "Alexander and Diogenes"

1675/76

Red chalk, heightened with touches of white chalk, on tan laid paper, laid down on tan laminate board

36.3 × 25.7 cm (14 5/16 × 10 1/8 in.)

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Nicolas Poussin

Studies after Andrea Mantegna, Giulio Romano, and the Antique

1635/40

Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, on off-white laid paper

26.9 × 20.3 cm (10 5/8 × 8 in.)

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Charles Le Brun

Study for a Herm

1674/78

Black chalk, heightened with touches of white chalk and traces of graphite, on tan laid paper, laid down on tan laid paper

32.2 × 18 cm (12 11/16 × 7 1/8 in.)

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Ubaldo Gandolfi

The Flagellation

early 1770s

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

24.7 × 20.2 cm (9 3/4 × 8 in.)

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Gaetano Gandolfi

Ulysses Before Circe, Mercury Behind

1766

Red chalk, with touches of wetted red chalk, on cream laid paper

49.9 × 35.9 cm (19 11/16 × 14 3/16 in.)

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Francesco Guardi

View of Campo San Zanipolo with the Temporary Platform Erected for the Visit of Pope Pius VI

1782

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

32.3 × 34.1 cm (12 3/4 × 13 7/16 in.)

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Canaletto

The Riva degli Schiavoni Seen from the Market at the Pier

after 1755

Pen and iron-gall ink and brush and gray wash, over traces of graphite, on off-white laid paper, laid down on cream laid laminated card

35.3 × 24 cm (13 15/16 × 9 1/2 in.)

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Democritus and Heraclitus Laughing and Sorrowing over the Follies of the World

1742/43

Black chalk, with pen and black and brown ink and brush and various brown washes, heightened with white gouache, on cream laid paper

40.5 × 27.2 cm (16 × 10 3/4 in.)

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Peter Paul Rubens

The Last Supper

late 1613 or early 1614

Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, heightened with touches of white opaque watercolor, over traces of black chalk, on cream laid paper, incised for transfer

30.2 × 19.7 cm (11 15/16 × 7 13/16 in.)

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Peter Paul Rubens

Nude Youth in the Pose of the Spinario

1610/16

Black chalk, heightened with white chalk, on tan laid paper

28 × 18.8 cm (11 1/16 × 7 7/16 in.)

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Domenico Maria Canuti

Study for the Allegorical Figure of Earthly Harmony

c. 1677

Red, black, and dark red chalk, with stumping, heightened with white chalk, on gray laid paper, laid down on cream laid laminated card

37 × 29.1 cm (14 5/8 × 11 1/2 in.)

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Salvator Rosa

Raising of Lazarus

early 1660s

Pen and iron-gall ink, with red chalk, brush and iron-gall ink wash and traces of black and brown chalk, on grayish ivory laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper

42.4 × 28 cm (16 3/4 × 11 1/16 in.)

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Annibale Carracci

Study of Hercules Resting, with Separate Studies of His Head and Foot (recto); Rectangular grid design (verso)

1595/97

Black chalk, heightened with white chalk, on blue laid paper

25.9 × 39.5 cm (10 1/4 × 15 9/16 in.)

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Lodovico Carracci

The Conversion of Saint Paul

1587/89

Pen and iron-gall ink, with brush and iron-gall ink wash, heightened with white oil paint, over traces of black chalk, on laid paper prepared with a brown oil wash, laid down on paper

55 × 33.5 cm (21 11/16 × 13 1/4 in.)

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Jacopo Negretti, called Palma Giovane

The Flagellation of Christ

by 1594

Pen and brown and black ink and brush and iron-gall ink wash, over black chalk, heightened with white gouache, on tan laid paper, pieced along right edge and incised

41.3 × 29 cm (16 5/16 × 11 7/16 in.)

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Orazio Samacchini

Study of a Kneeling Saint

1570/75

Black chalk on cream laid paper

42.1 × 27.4 cm (16 5/8 × 10 13/16 in.)

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Andrea Boscoli

Sophronia Enters the Palace of Aladin

1604/06

Pen and brown ink, and brush and brown wash, over touches of red chalk, on cream laid paper, laid down on blue laid laminated card

23.9 × 17.9 cm (9 7/16 × 7 1/16 in.)

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Federico Barocci

Study for the Christ Child in the Madonna of S. Simone (recto); Study of a Landscape (verso)

c. 1567

Black chalk, with stumping (recto), and black chalk, with touches of red chalk (verso), on cream laid paper

23.1 × 15.9 cm (9 1/8 × 6 5/16 in.)

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Paris Bordone

Sleeping Male Nude, perhaps for the Drunkenness of Noah

c. 1550

Black and white chalk on light brown paper

23.8 × 28.8 cm (9 3/8 × 11 3/8 in.)

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Giuseppe Porta, called Giuseppe Salviati

Bearded Man with his Right Arm Raised

1562/64

Black, red, and ocher chalk, heightened with touches of white chalk, on bluish gray laid paper

20.6 × 26.3 cm (8 1/8 × 10 3/8 in.)

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Francesco Salviati

Young Warrior, Seen from Behind, Lifting a Curtain

1550/55

Pen and brown ink, and brush and brown wash, heightened with white gouache, over black chalk, on cream laid paper

43.2 × 28 cm (17 1/16 × 11 1/16 in.)

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Perino del Vaga

Study of a Nude Seen from the Back, and Two Studies of an Arm (recto); Nude Seen from the Back, with Subsidiary Studies of a Shoulder and Leg (verso)

c. 1528

Pen and iron gall ink (recto) and pen and iron gall ink, with touches of red chalk (verso) on cream laid paper

28.1 × 19.3 cm (11 1/8 × 7 5/8 in.)

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Francesco Bonsignori

Portrait of an Old Man

late fifteenth century

Charcoal, with wet brush and stumping, on tan laid paper prepared with a gray ground

27.5 × 21.9 cm (10 7/8 × 8 5/8 in.)

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Johan Tobias Sergel

Chryses Imploring the Help of Apollo, from Iliad, Book I

1765/66

Black chalk on off-white laid paper, tipped onto wove paper

43.3 × 34.8 cm (17 1/16 × 13 3/4 in.)

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Johan Tobias Sergel

Achilles Restrained by Athena in Agamemnon's Tent, from Iliad, Book I

1765/66

Black chalk on cream laid paper

43 × 34.7 cm (16 15/16 × 13 11/16 in.)

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Giovanni Antonio di Francesco Sogliani

A Drapery Study for the Knees of a Seated Allegorical Figure of Charity (recto); Bust of a Naked Allegorical Figure of Charity with Two Putti (verso)

1520/30

Red chalk and brush and red chalk wash (recto) and black chalk, with black chalk grid lines, (verso) on cream laid paper

11.6 × 12.7 cm (4 5/8 × 5 in.)

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Domenico Campagnola

The Flight into Egypt

c. 1540

Pen and brown ink on dark cream laid paper, laid down on laid paper, with pen and ink and gold ruled lines

Primary support: 18.7 × 25 cm (7 3/8 × 9 7/8 in.); Secondary support: 24.1 × 30.2 cm (9 1/2 × 11 15/16 in.)

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Giuseppe Cesari, called Cavaliere d'Arpino

Study of a Standing Male Nude

1595/96

Black chalk on laid paper, laid down on tan laid pulp board

43.2 × 17.3 cm (17 1/16 × 6 13/16 in.)

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Benedetto Luti

Allegory of the Elevation of Cardinal Deacon Oddone Colonna to the Papal Chair as Pope Martin V

1700

Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, over black and red chalk, heightened with white opaque watercolor, on joined sheets of laid paper, mounted to paperboard

49.5 × 38.6 cm (19 1/2 × 15 1/4 in.)

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François Le Moyne

Hercules Raising his Club: Study for “Hercules and Cacus”

1717

Black chalk, with white chalk, on buff laid paper, laid down on laid paper

41 × 24.7 cm (16 3/16 × 9 3/4 in.)

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Pietro Antonio di Pietri

The Virgin and Saint Joseph with Saint Anthony of Padua Seated in the Heavens Interceding for the Souls in Purgatory, While an Angel Pours Fluid from a Vase onto the Crowd Below (recto and verso)

1690/1710

Pen and brown ink, brown and gray wash, and white opaque watercolor (recto) and pen and brown-black ink (verso) on laid paper

36.3 × 22.3 cm (14 5/16 × 8 13/16 in.)

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