Mocking of Christ

Provenance

Unidentified, early-mid nineteenth-century Italian collector [script (Lugt 3005f), verso, lower left, in graphite]. Sold, Puttick & Simpson, London, May 15, 1914, part of lot 85, 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].

Mocking of Christ

Giovanni Battista Castello

1562

Accession Number

84606

Medium

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

Dimensions

14.8 × 16.5 cm (5 7/8 × 6 1/2 in.)

Classification

ink with wash

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection