
Head of Saint John the Evangelist: Study for the Disputation on the Immaculate Conception
Giovanni Antonio di Francesco Sogliani · 1531/36
Provenance
Ownership history
- Sold, Sotheby's, London, July 4, 1994, lot 52 (as attributed to Camillo Boccaccino) (ill.), to Kate Ganz Ltd., London and New York; sold to the Art Institute, 1996.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago," April 10-July 22, 1997.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Broad Spectrum: Color on Paper, Past and Present," September 12–October 31, 1999, hors. cat.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Strokes of Genius: Italian Drawings from the Goldman Collection," November 1, 2014-February 1, 2015.
Literature
Published references
- 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. 226-27, no. 292 (ill.).
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