Death of Cleopatra

Prints and Drawings

c. 1540

Follower of Daniela da Volterra (Italian; 1509-1566)
or circle of Rosso Fiorentino (Italian, 1494-1540)

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Artist: Follower of Daniela da Volterra
Title: Death of Cleopatra
Origin: Florence
Date: 1538–1542
Medium: Black chalk on blue-gray laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
Dimensions: 254 × 348 mm (ma×.)
Credit Line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1922.1024

Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura M. Giles, Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1997), p. 212, no. 273 (ill.).

McCullagh & Giles 273

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