
Art Institute of ChicagoPublic domain
Sketches of Three Male Heads in Profile
Unknown Roman · 1580/1600
Provenance
Ownership history
- R. Cosway [stamp (Lugt 628), recto, lower right, in black]. Dr [J. B.] Ridley, Croydon, England; sold, Sotheby's, London, Apr. 2, 1912, part of lot 211, as Leonardo da Vince, to Maggs Bros., London. William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamps (Lugt 5308), recto, lower left and verso, center on mount, in black]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922 [stamp (Lugt 1230b), verso, center on mount, in black].
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
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. 293-94, no. 390 (ill.).
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