Profile Head of a Soldier with Helmet

Prints and Drawings

1588/96

Attributed to Gabriele Caliari
Italian, 1568-1631

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Gabriele Caliari
Title: Profile Head of a Soldier with Helmet
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.: 1588–1596
Medium: Red and black chalk on gray-brown laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed verso, center , in pen and black ink: "[J. B.?] Lapis"
Dimensions: 26.7 × 19 cm (10 9/16 × 7 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1922.915
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Karl T. Parker, “Carletto Caliari (1570-1596),” Old Master Drawings 11 (1936-37), pp. 27-28, pl. 22.
Alessandro Ballarin, “Introduzione ad un catalogo dei disegni di Jacopo Bassano II,” Arte Veneta, Studi di Storia Dell’Arte in Onore di Antonio Morassi 25 (1971), pp. 144-51.
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. 47-8, no. 52 (ill.).

Possibly, Zaccaria Sagredo (1650-1700), Venice. Baron Macartney (1737-1806) Parkhurst, Surrey; Macartney Family, to 1854. Federick Aikman, England; sold, Puttick & Simpson, London, March 14, 1913, lot 114, to William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower right, in black]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922 [stamp (Lugt 1230b), verso, center on mount, in black].

McCullagh & Giles 52

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