Portrait Bust of a Young Man

Provenance

J. W. Nahl [stamp (Lugt 1954), verso, lower left, in blue]. Sold, Puttick & Simpson, London, Nov. 6, 1914, part of lot 264 or 267, to William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower right, in black]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922 [stamp (Lugt 1230b), verso, lower center, in black].

Portrait Bust of a Young Man

Sandro Botticelli

after 1829

Accession Number

85117

Medium

Brush and brown ink and brown and gray wash, over traces of graphite, on ivory wove paper, tipped on to tan laid paper with gray fibers

Dimensions

41.7 × 26.2 cm (16 7/16 × 10 3/8 in.)

Classification

ink and wash

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection