Monk Giving Last Communion

Provenance

Unidentified early/mid nineteenth-century Italian collector [script, (Lugt 3005f), verso, lower left on mount, in graphite]. Sold, Puttick & Simpson, May 15, 1914, part of lot 85, to William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower left, 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].

Monk Giving Last Communion

Giovanni Battista Paggi

1575/85

Accession Number

82326

Medium

Pen and brown ink with brush and blue-gray wash, on tan laid paper, squared in black chalk, laid down on ivory laid paper

Dimensions

9.9 × 16 cm (3 15/16 × 6 5/16 in.)

Classification

ink with wash

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection