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Portrait of an Old Man

Francesco Zuccarelli · n.d.

Analyst brief

What the record supports

"Portrait of an Old Man" is an undated chalk drawing by Italian artist Francesco Zuccarelli. The artwork measures 20.1 × 16.5 cm (7 15/16 × 6 1/2 in.) and is executed in black chalk, with traces of white chalk, on blue laid paper. The medium is classified as chalk, and it is held within the Prints and Drawings department.

The provenance indicates the drawing was sold by P. & D. Colnaghi, London, to Kleinberger Galleries, New York, in June 1960. It was then sold by Kleinberger Galleries to the Art Institute in 1960. The artwork was a gift of Mrs. Joseph Regenstein to the institution.

This drawing has been featured in several exhibitions, including "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago" (New York, 1963), "The Regenstein Collection of European Drawings" (Chicago, 1974), and "151 Italian Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago" (1979-1980), which also traveled to Washington, D.C. It has also been cited in scholarly literature, including *Italian Drawings in the Art Institute of Chicago* (1979) and *Italian Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries and Spanish Drawings of the 17th through 19th Centuries* (1980). The specific date of creation for this work is not provided in the catalogue data.

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Provenance

Ownership history

Sold by P. & D. Colnaghi, London, to Kleinberger Galleries, New York, June 1960 [Kleinberger inventory card]; sold to the Art Institute, 1960.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 19.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1974, pp. 38-39, cat. 18 (ill.), by Harold Joachim.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "151 Italian Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," 1979-1980, cat. 130, by Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh; traveled to Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "18th Century Venetian Drawings," January 11-May 5, 1985.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Recent Acquisitions to the Regenstein Collection," February 20-April 28, 1995.
The Art Institute of Chicago, June 15-July 17, 1995.

Literature

Published references

Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Italian Drawings in the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), pp. 83-84, no. 130, pl. 138.
Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries and Spanish Drawings of the 17th through 19th Centuries (Chicago, 1980), p. 56, no. 2C10.

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