Provenance
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.
Head of Saint John the Evangelist: Study for the Disputation on the Immaculate Conception
1531/36
Accession Number
142536
Medium
Black and red chalks heightened with white chalk on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
25.7 × 18.3 cm (10 1/8 × 7 1/4 in.)
Classification
chalk
Credit Line
Margaret Day Blake, Suzanne Searle Dixon and Harold Joachim endowments
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