A Drapery Study for the Knees of a Seated Allegorical Figure of Charity (recto); Bust of a Naked Allegorical Figure of Charity with Two Putti (verso)

Prints and Drawings

1520/30

Giovanni Antonio Sogliani
Italian, 1492–1544

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Giovanni Antonio di Francesco Sogliani
Title: A Drapery Study for the Knees of a Seated Allegorical Figure of Charity (recto); Bust of a Naked Allegorical Figure of Charity with Two Putti (verso)
Place: Italy (Artist's nationality)
Date: 1520–1530
Medium: Red chalk and brush and red chalk wash (recto) and black chalk, with black chalk grid lines, (verso) on cream laid paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower right: "Pzimatitzo."
Dimensions: 11.6 × 12.7 cm (4 5/8 × 5 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
Reference Number: 2019.888
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The Art Institute of Chicago, “Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection”, January 25 - May 10, 2020, p. 22, cat. 2, p. 130, GC 2, traveled to Berkeley, CA, August 4 - November 28, 2021.

Sotheby’s, New York, Jan. 28, 2009, lot 66, attributed to Bernardino Gatti (withdrawn). Sold by Galerie de Bayser, Paris (as Italian School, 16th century), to Peter Bownes-Johnson, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, around 2012 [email from François Borne to Richard Gray dated Feb. 11, 2018]; sold through François J. Borne to the Gray Collection Trust, Chicago, Feb. 14, 2018; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.

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