Saint Paul Overcoming the Viper

Prints and Drawings

mid 1540s

Giulio Bonasone (Italian, c. 1510–after 1576)
after Perino del Vaga (Italian, 1501-1547)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Giulio Bonasone
Title: Saint Paul Overcoming the Viper
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.: 1542–1548
Medium: Engraving in black on cream laid paper
Dimensions: Plate: 24.8 × 16.4 cm (9 13/16 × 6 1/2 in.); Sheet: 25.2 × 16.8 cm (9 15/16 × 6 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: The Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston Endowment Fund
Reference Number: 2021.36
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Hector Allemand (1809–1886), Lyon [according to an inscription (Lugt 3923) on the verso of the 20th-century mount]; sold, Lyon, Mar. 1–11, 1887, lot. 830. Télémaque Costa de Saint Genix de Beauregard (1891–1935), Lyon and Chateauvieux [stamp (Lugt 3339), recto, lower right]. Sold by Nicholas Hall, New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2021.

Bartsch Vol. XV, p. 130, no. 71

Bartsch, illustrated vol. 28, pp. 278-80, no. I/II

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