About This Artwork

Domenico Beccafumi, called Il Mecarino, after
Italian, 1484-1551

Four Evangelists, c. 1544

Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, over red chalk, on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper
230 x 187 mm
Inscribed recto, lower center, in pen and brown ink: "Domenico Beccafumi detto Macherino da Siena / scudi 120"
Gift from Mrs. Benjamin F. Stein, 1960.358

McCullagh & Giles 455

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura M. Giles, Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1997), no. 455 (ill.).

Ownership History

Given by Mrs. Benjamin F. Stein, Highland Park, Ill., to the Art Institute, 1960.