David with Goliath's Head and Sword

Prints and Drawings

1587

Giovanni Battista Paggi
Italian, 1554-1627

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Giovanni Battista Paggi
Title: David with Goliath's Head and Sword
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.: 1587
Medium: Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white and traces of graphite, on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, lower edge, in pen and brown ink: "A Ms Giuseppe Casabona semphista di S.A. à Firenze, GPB 1587"
Dimensions: 25.9 × 17.5 cm (10 1/4 × 6 15/16 in.)
Credit Line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1922.1920
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Mary Newcome, “Drasings by Paggi, 1577-1600,” Antichità Viva (1991), pp. 14-23, no. 27.
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. 151, no. 194 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago,” Apr. 12-June 22, 1997.

W. Bates [stamp (Lugt 2604), recto, lower right, in red]. J. J. Lindman [stamp (Lugt 1479a), recto, lower right, in purple]. 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, lower center, in black].

McCullagh & Giles 194

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