Half-length Figure Study for Saint Paul

Provenance

Dal Ponte family, Bassano (Italy). Doge Nicolò Sagredo (d. 1676), Venice, 1651; his brother Stefano Sagredo, Venice; his son Zaccaria Sagredo (d. 1729), Venice; his nephew Gherardo Sagredo (d. 1738); his wife Cecelia Sagredo; sold, c. 1743. Private collection, Lyons, France, c. 1919 (album disbound); Maurice Marignane, Paris (Lugt 1872), from 1919; by descent to his son, Hubert Marignane, Paris (Lugt Suppl. 1343a). Private collection, Munich, 1987. Sold by Gooden & Fox, Ltd., London, to the Art Institute, 1995.

Half-length Figure Study for Saint Paul

Jacopo Bassano

1561/65

Accession Number

137046

Medium

Charcoal heightened with brush and lead white, on blue laid paper, edge mounted to cream wove paper

Dimensions

21.5 × 19.4 cm (8 1/2 × 7 11/16 in.)

Classification

charcoal

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Margaret Day Blake Collection