Bust of a Young Man in Profile

Provenance

Antonio II Badile, the Younger (1424-c. 1507), Verona, from an album inscribed 1500 [Degenhart and Lugt]. Count Ludovico Moscardo (1611-1681), Verona [script (Lugt Supp. 2990b-g) recto, upper center]; by descent to his heirs, the Miniscalchi-Erizzo family, Verona [Karet and Windows 2005, p. 23]; sold by Mario Miniscalchi-Erizzo (died 1957), Verona, around 1905-07 [Karet and Windows 2005, p. 23]. Private collection [Karet and Windows 2005, p. 23]. Francis Matthiesen, London, early 1950s [Karet and Windows 2005, p. 23]. Sold by Richard Zinser, New York, to the Art Institute, 1957.

Bust of a Young Man in Profile

Giovanni Badile

1430/40

Accession Number

5379

Medium

Metalpoint on cream laid paper, prepared with grayish white ground over red chalk wash ground, laid down on blue wove paper

Dimensions

24.1 × 17.4 cm (9 1/2 × 6 7/8 in.)

Classification

metalpoint

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Margaret Day Blake Collection