Portrait Bust of a Young Man

1830·Brush and brown ink and brown and gray wash, over traces of graphite, on ivory wove paper, tipped on to tan laid paper with gray fibers·41.7 × 26.2 cm (16 7/16 × 10 3/8 in.)

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection

Catalogue

Year: 1830
Medium: Brush and brown ink and brown and gray wash, over traces of graphite, on ivory wove paper, tipped on to tan laid paper with gray fibers
Dimensions: 41.7 × 26.2 cm (16 7/16 × 10 3/8 in.)
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Artist: Sandro Botticelli

Artist

Sandro Botticelli

Painting

Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli or simply Botticelli, was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. Botticelli's posthumous reputation suffered until the late 19th century, when he was rediscovered by the Pre-Raphaelites who stimulated a reappraisal of his work. Since then, his paintings have been seen to represent the linear grace of late Italian Gothic and some Early Renaissance painting, even though they date from the latter half of the Italian Renaissance period.

Florence, Italy

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