Head of Saint John the Evangelist: Study for the Disputation on the Immaculate Conception

Prints and Drawings

1531/36

Giovanni Antonio Sogliani
Italian, 1492-1544

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Giovanni Antonio di Francesco Sogliani
Title: Head of Saint John the Evangelist: Study for the Disputation on the Immaculate Conception
Place: Italy (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1531–1536
Medium: Black and red chalks heightened with white chalk on ivory laid paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, lower left, in pen and brown ink: "Sogliano"
Dimensions: 25.7 × 18.3 cm (10 1/8 × 7 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Margaret Day Blake, Suzanne Searle Dixon and Harold Joachim endowments
Reference Number: 1996.2
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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. 226-27, no. 292 (ill.).

The Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago,” April 10-July 22, 1997.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “The Broad Spectrum: Color on Paper, Past and Present,” September 12–October 31, 1999, hors. cat.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Strokes of Genius: Italian Drawings from the Goldman Collection,” November 1, 2014-February 1, 2015.

Sold, Sotheby’s, London, July 4, 1994, lot 52 (as attributed to Camillo Boccaccino) (ill.), to Kate Ganz Ltd., London and New York; sold to the Art Institute, 1996.

McCullagh & Giles 292

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