Half-length Sketch of Bearded Man (Jupiter?)

Prints and Drawings

1540/60

After Battista Franco, called Il Semolei
Italian, c. 1510-1561

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Battista Franco
Title: Half-length Sketch of Bearded Man (Jupiter?)
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.: 1540–1560
Medium: Pen and brown ink on cream laid paper, tipped onto blue laid paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, lower center on ivory wove paper attached to mount, in pen and brown ink: "Baldassarre Peruzzi"
Dimensions: 14.9 × 14.1 cm (5 7/8 × 5 9/16 in.)
Credit Line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1922.906
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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. 336 and 339, no. 488 (ill.).

Sold, Puttick & Simpson, London, Jan. 29, 1915, to William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower right, in black]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922 [stamps (Lugt 1230b), verso, center and center on mount, in black].

McCullagh & Giles 488

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