Allegorical Figure of Fortitude, with Coat of Arms Above

A seated female figure in classical drapery leans on a column before a draped canopy and an ornate cartouche with garlands and cherub heads. Putti cluster at the lower right, and a rear architectural setting recedes at right. The sheet is drawn in pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk.

Artist

Giovanni Battista Coriolano

Date

n.d.

Medium

Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, over black chalk, with incising, on tan laid paper, pieced and laid down on ivory laid paper

Source

Art Institute of Chicago

Size

1686 × 2606 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection