Monk Giving Last Communion

Prints and Drawings

1575/85

Attributed to Giovanni Battista Paggi
Italian, 1554-1627

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Giovanni Battista Paggi
Title: Monk Giving Last Communion
Place: Italy (Artist's nationality)
Date: 1575–1585
Medium: Pen and brown ink with brush and blue-gray wash, on tan laid paper, squared in black chalk, laid down on ivory laid paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, lower right on mount, in graphite: "no. 886"; upper right on mount, in graphite: "530"; inscribed verso, lower left on mount, in graphite: ". . . 12. 9bre.1829.Paggi."
Dimensions: 9.9 × 16 cm (3 15/16 × 6 5/16 in.)
Credit Line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1922.886
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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. 151-52, no. 195 (ill.).

Unidentified early/mid nineteenth-century Italian collector [script, (Lugt 3005f), verso, lower left on mount, in graphite]. Sold, Puttick & Simpson, May 15, 1914, part of lot 85, to William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower left, in black]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922 [stamp (Lugt 1230b), verso, center on mount, in black].

McCullagh & Giles 195

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