Standing Monk Holding a Book and Staff

Prints and Drawings

c. 1590

Bartolomeo Cesi
Italian, 1556-1629

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Bartolomeo Cesi
Title: Standing Monk Holding a Book and Staff
Place: Italy (Artist's nationality)
Date: 1585–1595
Medium: Red chalk heightened with white chalk, on blue laid paper, laid down on buff laid card
Dimensions: 31.9 × 18.8 cm (12 9/16 × 7 7/16 in.)
Credit Line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1922.23
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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), p. 87, no. 111 (ill.).

McCullagh & Giles 111

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