About This Artwork
Italian, Tuscan or Genoese
Late 16th Century
Bishop Blessing a Kneeling Man OR Meeting of Emperor Theodosius and Bishop Ambrosec. 1600
Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, over graphite, on cream laid paper, laid down on off-white laid paper
201 x 291 mm
Gift of Mr. Charles E. Slatkin, 1959.42
McCullagh & Giles 403
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Publication History
Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings of the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries (Chicago, 1979), p. 149, no. 5C2, as by Giovanni Battista Paggi.
Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura M. Giles, Italian Drawings Before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1997), pp. 301-302, no. 403 (ill.).
Ownership History
Unidentified collector [collector stamp; not in Lugt]. Given by Charles E. Slatkin, New York to the Art Institute, 1959.