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Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection

Art Institute of Chicago · Jan 25, 2020 – Oct 12, 2020

A collection of extraordinary breadth and quality tells the medium’s history.

Exhibition guide

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Works in this exhibition

Comtesse Charles d’Agoult (born Marie de Flavigny) and Her Daughter Claire d’AgoultJean Auguste Dominique Ingres · 1849
Nude Soldiers Gesticulating with Their Weapons (recto); Two Drapery Studies for the Figure of Tatius (verso)Jacques Louis David · 1796/97
Punchinello Collapses on the Road, from the series Divertimento per li regazzi (Entertainment for Children)Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo · c. 1791
Adoration of the ShepherdsFrancesco Fontebasso · c. 1750

The exhibition at the museum

The Head of a Young Man in Profile to the Left (recto); Studies of Allegorical Figures (verso)Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1749/50 (recto); 1750/53 (verso)

The Conversion of Saint PaulGiorgio Vasari · 1554

Allegory of EternityGiorgio Vasari · 1544/45

Apollo Driving the Chariot of the SunLelio Orsi · 1544/45

The Lamentation of Christ (recto and verso)Polidoro da Caravaggio · 1527/35

Study of a Draped Woman Leaning on a PedestalFrançois Boucher · 1759/61

The Baptism of ChristCornelis van Poelenburgh · 1641/67

Violin PlayerPieter Cornelisz. van Slingeland · mid-17th century

Bust of a WarriorHendrick Goltzius · 1586/88

A Soldier Loading a Musket, "Ramme in Your Pouder"Jacques de Gheyn, II · 1596/98

A Bearded Figure Wearing a Turban and Fur Coat, Half Length, Turned to the RightGerbrand van den Eeckhout · c. 1670

Male Nude Seen from BehindDaniel Mytens, II · 1672/88

The Triumphant Hercules with the Vanquished HydraGuercino · c. 1618

Landscape with a River Crossed by a Bridge, Lined with Spectators, Leading to a Building with an Overhanging Loggia with a Party of OnlookersGuercino · c. 1630

Madonna and Child, a Warrior Saint (Michael?), and a Group of WorshippersBernardino Lanino · 1565/70

Head of a WomanJacques Louis David · c. 1780

Bather With Outstretched Arms (recto); Study of a Tree (verso)Paul Cezanne · 1874/77

Avenue of Pollard Birches and PoplarsVincent van Gogh · March 1884

LandscapeGeorges Seurat · c. 1881

Academic Male NudeGeorges Seurat · 1877

Study of a SingerHilaire Germain Edgar Degas · 1878/80

Primitive BeingOdilon Redon · c. 1876

Portrait of the Artist Joseph ChinardJean-Baptiste Isabey · 1799/1802

Portrait of a Young WomanJean Auguste Dominique Ingres · 1812

The Borghese Chapel in Santa Maria Maggiore, RomeJean Auguste Dominique Ingres · 1824

Astolfo Sails off with Andronica and SofrosinaJean Honoré Fragonard · early 1780s

Marcus Curtius Leaping into the ChasmGiovanni Paolo Panini · c. 1718

Two Angels in FlightCharles de La Fosse · 1707/10

Study of Bucephalus for the Relief "Alexander and Diogenes"Pierre Puget · 1675/76

Studies after Andrea Mantegna, Giulio Romano, and the AntiqueNicolas Poussin · 1635/40

Study for a HermCharles Le Brun · 1674/78

The FlagellationUbaldo Gandolfi · early 1770s

Ulysses Before Circe, Mercury BehindGaetano Gandolfi · 1766

View of Campo San Zanipolo with the Temporary Platform Erected for the Visit of Pope Pius VIFrancesco Guardi · 1782

The Riva degli Schiavoni Seen from the Market at the PierCanaletto · after 1755

Democritus and Heraclitus Laughing and Sorrowing over the Follies of the WorldGiovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1742/43

The Last SupperPeter Paul Rubens · late 1613 or early 1614

Nude Youth in the Pose of the SpinarioPeter Paul Rubens · 1610/16

Study for the Allegorical Figure of Earthly HarmonyDomenico Maria Canuti · c. 1677

Raising of LazarusSalvator Rosa · early 1660s

Study of Hercules Resting, with Separate Studies of His Head and Foot (recto); Rectangular grid design (verso)Annibale Carracci · 1595/97

The Conversion of Saint PaulLodovico Carracci · 1587/89

The Flagellation of ChristJacopo Negretti, called Palma Giovane · by 1594

Study of a Kneeling SaintOrazio Samacchini · 1570/75

Sophronia Enters the Palace of AladinAndrea Boscoli · 1604/06

Study for the Christ Child in the Madonna of S. Simone (recto); Study of a Landscape (verso)Federico Barocci · c. 1567

Sleeping Male Nude, perhaps for the Drunkenness of NoahParis Bordone · c. 1550

Bearded Man with his Right Arm RaisedGiuseppe Porta, called Giuseppe Salviati · 1562/64

Young Warrior, Seen from Behind, Lifting a CurtainFrancesco Salviati · 1550/55

Study of a Nude Seen from the Back, and Two Studies of an Arm (recto); Nude Seen from the Back, with Subsidiary Studies of a Shoulder and Leg (verso)Perino del Vaga · c. 1528

Portrait of an Old ManFrancesco Bonsignori · late fifteenth century

Chryses Imploring the Help of Apollo, from Iliad, Book IJohan Tobias Sergel · 1765/66

Achilles Restrained by Athena in Agamemnon's Tent, from Iliad, Book IJohan Tobias Sergel · 1765/66

A Drapery Study for the Knees of a Seated Allegorical Figure of Charity (recto); Bust of a Naked Allegorical Figure of Charity with Two Putti (verso)Giovanni Antonio di Francesco Sogliani · 1520/30

The Flight into EgyptDomenico Campagnola · c. 1540

Study of a Standing Male NudeGiuseppe Cesari, called Cavaliere d'Arpino · 1595/96

Allegory of the Elevation of Cardinal Deacon Oddone Colonna to the Papal Chair as Pope Martin VBenedetto Luti · 1700

Hercules Raising his Club: Study for “Hercules and Cacus”François Le Moyne · 1717

The Virgin and Saint Joseph with Saint Anthony of Padua Seated in the Heavens Interceding for the Souls in Purgatory, While an Angel Pours Fluid from a Vase onto the Crowd Below (recto and verso)Pietro Antonio di Pietri · 1690/1710