Standing Monk Holding a Book and Staff

Prints and Drawings

c. 1590

Bartolomeo Cesi
Italian, 1556-1629

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Artist: Bartolomeo Cesi
Title: Standing Monk Holding a Book and Staff
Origin: Italy
Date: 1585–1595
Medium: Red chalk heightened with white chalk, on blue laid paper, laid down on buff laid card
Dimensions: 319 × 188 mm
Credit Line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1922.23

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. 87, no. 111 (ill.).

McCullagh & Giles 111

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