Study for Cosimo I Reorganizing the Tuscan Troops

Created 1589

Curatorial Overview

“Study for Cosimo I Reorganizing the Tuscan Troops is an internationally celebrated Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white, over traces of black chalk, on tan laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper created by Ludovico Buti (1589). From the collection of The Art Institute of Chicago.”

Object Details

MediumPen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white, over traces of black chalk, on tan laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper

Dimensions41.5 × 27.1 cm (16 3/8 × 10 11/16 in.)

Archive / MuseumThe Art Institute of Chicago

Credit LineThe Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection

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Curatorial Affinity Stream

Continuing the Universe of Ludovico Buti Italian, c. 1550-1611

Renaissance • Italy • Harmonious Works & Contemporaries

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