Diogenes

Prints and Drawings

1774

John Downman (English, 1750-1824)
or after Raffaello Sanzio, called Raphael (Italian, 1483-1520)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: John Downman
Title: Diogenes
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.: 1774
Medium: Charcoal with stumping on ivory laid paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed, recto, lower left, in graphite: "2. light Blue/3. White/4. (...) Purple/ Vatican June 27th 1774/In the School of Athens/after Raffaelle in the Vatican by JD 1774"
Dimensions: 39.1 × 50.3 cm (15 7/16 × 19 13/16 in.)
Credit Line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1922.1438
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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. 372-73, no. 612 (ill.).

William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower right]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922 [stamp (Lugt 1230b), verso].

McCullagh & Giles 612

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