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    Bust of a Young Man in Profile
    Giovanni Badile. Bust of a Young Man in Profile, 1430/40. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
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    Bust of a Young Man in Profile

    by Giovanni Badile

    Inscriptions

    Inscribed recto, upper center, in pen and brown ink: "joane badille.Z.(?) prete"; upper right on mount, in pen and brown ink: "10"; lower margin of mount, in graphite: "38"; verso, lower edge of mount, in graphite: "39, 40"

    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.

    Exhibition history

    The Art Institute of Chicago, "Carl O. Schniewind Memorial Exhibition," January 22-March 3, 1958, cat 1, pl. 1. New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 1, pl. 1, as Anonymous North Italian. The Art Institute of Chicago, "A Quarter Century of Collecting: Drawings Given to The Art Institute of Chicago 1944-1970 by Margaret Day Blake," April 28-June 7, 1970, n.p., cat. 2 (ill.), as Anonymous North Italian. International Exhibitions Foundation (organizer), "Venetian Drawings from American Collections," 1974-1975, p. 5, nact. 1 (ill.); shown at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Tex.; and the St. Louis Art Museum. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Italian Drawings in The Art Institute of Chicago," 1979, p. 19, cat. 1, pl. 1. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago," April 10-July 22, 1997. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Devotion and Splendor: Medieval Art at The Art Institute of Chicago," September 25, 2004-January 2, 2005. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Strokes of Genius: Italian Drawings from the Goldman Collection," November 1, 2014-February 1, 2015.

    Publications

    Alfred Frankfurter, 'Il bon disegno from Chicago,' Art News 62 (1963), pp. 29. Micheline Sonkes, Dessins du XVe siècle: Groupe van der Weyden (Brussels, 1969), pp. 252-54 and 275, pl. 68a, no. E21. John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (New York, 1970), p. 141. Harold Joachim, compiled by Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Sandra Haller Olsen, Italian Drawings of the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries (Chicago, 1979), p. 11, no. 1A3. George Goldner, Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, exh. cat. (Los Angeles, 1983), p. 21. Royal Academy of Art, Master Drawings: The Woodner Collection, exh. cat. (London, 1987), p. 24. Shigetoshi Osano, "Giovanni Badile collaboratore del Pisanello? Contributo alla datazione del ciclo cavalleresco di Mantova," in Quaderni di Palazzo Té 4 (1987), p. 22, no. 61. Shigetoshi Osano, "Per il catalogo di Giovanni Badile," Tama Art University Bulletin 4 (1989), pp. 16 and 32, fig. 6. Shigetoshi Osano, "Giovanni Badile collaboratore del Pisanello: riflessioni sul suo itinerario artistico," in La Capella Guantieri in S. Maria della Scala a Verona: Il restauro degli affreschi di Giovanni Badile e dell'Arca (Verona, 1989), pp. 65ff, nos. 58-59. Monika Dachs, "Neue Uberlegungen zum sogenannten Studienblatt des Michelino da Besozzo in des Graphischen Sammlung Albertina in Wien," Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz 35 (1991), pp. 14-15, no. 41, pl. 18. Robert Munman in Burton L. Dunbar and Edward Olszewski (eds.), Drawings in Midwestern Collections: Early Works 1 (Columbia, Mo., and London, 1996), pp. 72-76, no. 14. Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura M. Giles, Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1997), pp. 7-9, no. 6 (ill.). Laura K. Bruck, Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Christina M. Nielsen, Martha Tedeschi, and Martha Wolff, “The Fifteenth Century,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 30:2 (2004), pp. 69-70, no. 45. Evelyn Karet and Peter Windows, "The Antonio II Badile Album of Drawings: A Reconstruction of an Early Sixteenth Century Collection," in Arte Lombarda 145:3 (2005), p. 29, notes 11 and 28, p. 35, fig. 24, and p. 36, no. 10r.

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Giovanni Badile / Italian, 1379-1448/1451
    Date
    1430/40
    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.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    metalpoint
    Place
    Italy
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Margaret Day Blake Collection
    Accession no.
    1957.79

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