
Sacrifice of a Bull
The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Catalogue
- Year
- 1550
- Dimensions
- 25.1 × 13.7 cm (9 15/16 × 5 7/16 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Francesco Primaticcio
Artist

Painting
Francesco Primaticcio was an Italian Mannerist painter, architect and sculptor who spent most of his career in France.
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Return of Agamemnon
1700 · Black chalk, with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white (partly oxidized), on tan laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper
Ulysses and His Companions Fighting the Cicones Before the City of Ismaros, Study for a Destroyed Fresco in the Galerie d'Ulysee, Chateau de Fontainebleau
1555 · Red chalk highlighted with white gouache, on red-washed paper
Vulcan Forging the Darts of Cupid
1552 · Red chalk, highlighted with white gouache, on brownish paper
Two Nymphs Carrying a Third
1544 · Pen and brown ink, brown wash, traces of white corrections. Black chalk shading probably added by a later hand.
Fortitude (Study for the "Cabinet du roi" [King's Study])
1541 · Brush and vermilion wash, heightened with lead white, over stylus incising, on cream laid paper toned pink, laid down on cream laid paper
Mercurius en Io op de grond gezeten
1541 · squared on ink, chalk, paper
Record
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- Francesco Primaticcio
- Year
- 1550
- Dimensions
- 25.1 × 13.7 cm (9 15/16 × 5 7/16 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1550-007219
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
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