Sketches of Three Male Heads in Profile

Prints and Drawings

1580/1600

Italian, Roman or Lombard
Late 16th century

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Artist: Unknown Roman
Title: Sketches of Three Male Heads in Profile
Origin: Italy
Date: 1580–1599
Medium: Black chalk, on cream laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, lower left, in pen and brown ink: "pniv.L." [?]; at left edge, in black chalk: "87"; lower center on mount, in graphite: "Leonard da Vinci"
Dimensions: 208 × 143 mm
Credit Line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1922.5410

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.).

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].

McCullagh & Giles 390

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