Head of a Bearded Man, Looking Up to Right: Study for Saint Catherine of Alexandria Disputing with the Pagan Priests

Prints and Drawings

c. 1603

Ludovico Cardi, called Il Cigoli (Italian, 1559-161
or follower of Federico Barocci (Italian, c. 1535-1612)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Cigoli
Title: Head of a Bearded Man, Looking Up to Right: Study for Saint Catherine of Alexandria Disputing with the Pagan Priests
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.: 1601–1605
Medium: Red and black chalk, heightened with touches of white chalk, on blue laid paper, laid down on cream laid card
Dimensions: 16.5 × 13 cm (6 1/2 × 5 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1922.1017
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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. 90-91, no. 115 (ill.).
Shelley Perlove and George S. Keyes (editors).
Seventeenth-Century European Drawings in Midwestern Collections (University of Notre Dame Press, 2014), pp. 22

The Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago,” April 10-July 22, 1997.

McCullagh & Giles 115

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