Virgin and Child with the Infant John the Baptist, and Saints Francis of Assisi and Clare

Publications

Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura M. Giles, Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1997), p. 44, no. 48 (ill.).

Quick Overview

Artist: Felice Brusasorci / Italian, c. 1542-1605
Date: n.d.
Medium: Brush and brown wash and blue-gray gouache (the latter added by a later hand), over black chalk(?), on tan laid paper, laid down on ivory wove card (3 sections cut from original sheet)
Dimensions: 46.8 × 67.5 cm (18 7/16 × 26 5/8 in.)
Type: Drawing
Classification: wash
Place: Italy
Department: Prints and Drawings
Credit line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James W. Alsdorf
Accession no.: 1965.1186

Provenance

Unidentified collector [stamp (Lugt 2781a), recto, lower right, in each of the three sections, in blue]. Given by Mr. and Mrs. James W. Alsdorf, Winnetka, Ill., to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1965.

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.