Statue of Augustus Caesar (recto and verso)

Prints and Drawings

n.d. (recto); Late 16th c. (verso)

Unknown Italian
Late 16th century

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Unknown Roman
Title: Statue of Augustus Caesar (recto and verso)
Origin: Italy
Date: 1580–1599
Medium: Pen and brown ink over traces of black chalk (recto) and pen and blue ink (verso), on ivory laid paper, with incising
Inscriptions: Inscribed verso, on former mount (according to Gurley Card Index): "Stefano della Bella"
Dimensions: 117 × 49 mm
Credit Line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1922.740
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John A. Gere, “Some Early Drawings by Pirro Ligorio,” Master Drawings 9 (1971), pp. 239-50.
Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Italian Drawings of the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries (Chicago and London, 1979), pp. 25-26, cat. 1D7 (as Polidoro Caldara [da Caravaggio][?]).
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. 291-92, no. 387 (ill.).

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

J. J. Lindman [stamp (Lugt 1479a), recto, lower right, in violet]. William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamps (Lugt 5308), recto, lower right and verso, lower left, in black]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922.

McCullagh & Giles 387

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