The Death of the Children of Niobe
The Wallace L. DeWolf and Joseph Brooks Fair Collections
Catalogue
- Year
- 1541
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 33.2 × 44.5 cm (13 1/8 × 17 9/16 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Francesco Salviati
Artist
Painting
Francesco Salviati or Francesco de' Rossi was an Italian Mannerist painter who lived and worked in Florence, with periods in Bologna and Venice, ending with a long period in Rome, where he died. He is known by various names, usually the adopted one of Francesco Salviati or Il Salviati, after an early patron, but also Francesco Rossi and Cecchino del Salviati.
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Young Warrior, Seen from Behind, Lifting a Curtain
1550 · Pen and brown ink, and brush and brown wash, heightened with white gouache, over black chalk, on cream laid paper
Camillus Attacking Brennus
1548 · Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, over traces of graphite, on ivory laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper
The Resurrection
1545 · pen and brown ink with brown wash heightened with white on laid paper (faint black chalk sketch on verso?)
Record
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- Francesco Salviati
- Year
- 1541
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 33.2 × 44.5 cm (13 1/8 × 17 9/16 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1541-002258
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
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- Status
- verified