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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Seated Youth Wearing a Monk's Habit: Study for Saint Benedict by Bartolomeo Cesi
    Bartolomeo Cesi. Seated Youth Wearing a Monk's Habit: Study for Saint Benedict, 1590. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
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    Seated Youth Wearing a Monk's Habit: Study for Saint Benedict

    by Bartolomeo Cesi

    Inscriptions

    Inscribed recto, lower right, in pen and brown ink: "Dono"; inscribed verso, upper left, in graphite, and lower right, in pen and brown ink (in Gurley hand): "Paolo di Dono--1397-1475 / ("Paolo Uccello")"; lower left, in pen and brown ink: "geb 1600"; inscribed on former mount (GCI): "Denes Calmar (probably "Denys Calvaert," as interpreted by Ulrich Middeldorf)

    Exhibition history

    Regina, Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, "A selection of Italian drawings from North American collections," January 16-February 15, 1970, p. 34, cat. 23; traveled to Montreal, Museum of Fine Arts, March 5-April 3, 1970. St. Louis Art Museum, "Italian drawings selected from mid-western collections," February 25-April 16, 1972, cat 21, cat. by Nancy Ward Neilson. Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, "Italian drawings in The Art Institute of Chicago," p. 45, cat. 45, and p. 124, pl. 54, cat. by Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, 1979-80. Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, "Bolognese Drawings in North American Collections, 1500-1800," 1982, exh. cat. by Mimi Cazort and Catherine Johnston, pp. 59-60, cat. 19. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago," April 10-June 22, 1997.

    Publications

    Ulrich Middeldorf, "Old Master Drawings from the Fifteenth through the Eighteenth Centuries: Two Hundred Examples from the Collection of The Art Institute of Chicago, Selected and Described by Ulrich Middeldorf," Unpublished Manuscript, Department of Prints and Drawings, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1938/40. Harold Joachim, The Art Institute of Chicago: Italian Drawings of the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries (with microfiche ill.), compiled by Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Sandra Haller Olsen (Chicago, 1979), p. 127, no. 4D8. Daniele Benati, Per il percorso iniziale di Bartolomeo Cesi, "Paragone," no. 369 (1980), p. 16, pl. 8. Andrea Emiliani, et al., Bologna 1584: Gli Esordi dei Carracci e Gli Affreschi di Palazzo Fava, exh. cat. (Bologna, 1984), pp. 41-42, under no. 35, fig. 35A. Diane DeGrazia, with an essay by Eugenio Riccomini, Correggio and his Legacy: Sixteenth-century Emilian Drawings, exh. cat. (Washington, 1984) p. 348, no. 5. Alberto Graziani, with essays by Francesco Abbate and Mario di Giampaolo, Bartolomeo Cesi (Milan, 1988), p. 169. 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. 86-87, no. 110 (ill.). Shelley Perlove and George S. Keyes (editors). Seventeenth-Century European Drawings in Midwestern Collections (University of Notre Dame Press, 2014), pp. 20.

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Bartolomeo Cesi / Italian, 1556-1629
    Date
    1590
    Medium
    Red chalk, heightened with touches of white chalk, on blue laid paper, squared in black and red chalk
    Dimensions
    35.2 × 21.4 cm (13 7/8 × 8 7/16 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    chalk
    Place
    Italy
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
    Accession no.
    1922.5404

    Provenance

    Possibly Signori Locatelli, Bologna. E. Peart [script (Lugt 892) recto, lower left, in pen and brown ink]. Sold, Puttick and Simpson, London, May 15, 1914, part of lot 85, to William F. E. Gurley (1854-1943), Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922.

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