Monk in the Ruins of a Monastery

Prints and Drawings

1820/1830

Domenico Quaglio II
German, 1787-1837

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Domenico Quaglio
Title: Monk in the Ruins of a Monastery
Place: Germany (Artist's nationality)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1820–1830
Medium: Pen and black ink with brush and brown wash, squared in graphite, on paper
Dimensions: 31.3 × 40.6 cm (12 3/8 × 16 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Mary and Leigh Block
Reference Number: 1965.21
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Brigitte Trost, Domenico Quaglio 1787-1837: Monographie und Werkverzeichnis (Munich, 1973), pp. 129-130, no. 138b, fig. 182.

Cambridge, Mass., Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, “German Master Drawings of the 19th Century,” October 4-November 18, 1972, cat. 69; also traveled to New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 14, 1972-January 28, 1973; Ottawa, The National Gallery of Canada, February 23-April 1; and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, April 26-June 3, 1973.
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. 122-123, cat. 54 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Imaging the Body: from Fragment to Total Display,” January 30-April 28, 1992, p. 49.

Sold by C. G. Boerner, Dusseldorf, to the Art Institute, 1965.

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