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Bowcase and Quiver of Arrows

Pisanello · 1438

Analyst brief

What the record supports

The artwork, "Bowcase and Quiver of Arrows," is a pen and brown ink drawing on ivory laid paper by the artist Pisanello, dated 1438. It measures 18.9 × 26.5 cm (7 1/2 × 10 7/16 in.) and is classified as a pen and ink drawing within the Prints and Drawings department. It is held by the Art Institute of Chicago, having been acquired through the Margaret Day Blake Collection, and is attributed to Italian culture.

The piece lacks specific provenance information in the provided record. It has been exhibited multiple times, including at Wildenstein and Company in New York (1963), The Art Institute of Chicago (1985, 1997), Musée du Louvre in Paris (1996), Palazzo Pitti in Florence (2002), and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (2004).

Further details about the artwork are available in scholarly literature, including "Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago" (1997) and "Treasures from The Art Institute of Chicago" (2000). The artist authority record provides no birth or death years for Pisanello, nor any nationality beyond Italy (culture).

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Exhibitions

Exhibition history

New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 2, pl. III.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 24-25, cat. 1 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi.
Paris, Musée du Louvre, "Pisanello," May 6-August 5, 1996.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago," April 10, 1997-July 22, 1997.
Florence, Palazzo Pitti, "Islam, specchio d'Oriente, rarità e preziosi nelle collezioni statali fiorentine," April 23-September 1, 2002, p. 44, fig. 3.
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261–1557)," March 15-July 4, 2004.

Literature

Published references

Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura M. Giles, Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1997), pp. 192-93, no. 250.
Treasures from The Art Institute of Chicago, selected by James N. Wood, with commentaries by Debra N. Mancoff (Chicago, 2000), p. 90 (ill. verso).

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