About the Artwork
Study of a Building and Tall Tree
between 1568 and 1570
Gherardo Cibo
1512-1600
Italian
Unknown
Pen and brown ink, heightened with white on blue laid paper
Sheet: 5 1/2 × 8 1/4 inches (14 × 21 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard F. Walker
68.28.B
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, in pencil, upper left corner: 6 [sideways and underscored]
Provenance
April 27, 1960, sold by Sotheby's (London, England) (from an album referred to as San Quirico Album or A. Bruce Thomson Album)
Nathan Chaikin (Morges (Vaud), Switzerland)
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard F. Walker (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA)
1968-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, pp. 42-43, no. 8, p. 19 (pl. iii).
Klein, A. "Chiaroscuros: Highlight of a Gift." Bulletin of the DIA 46, 3 (1967): p. 53.
Olszewski, Edward. A Corpus of Drawings in Midwestern Collections. Sixteenth-Century Italian Drawings, vol. 1-2. Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2008, vol. 1, pp. 155-156, cat. 130v (ill).
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Gherardo Cibo, Study of a Building and Tall Tree, between 1568 and 1570, pen and brown ink, heightened with white on blue laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard F. Walker, 68.28.B.
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