Study for Saint Francis of Assisi Giving His Cloak to an Impoverished Knight

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), pp. 213-14, no. 275 (ill.).

Quick Overview

Artist: Giovanni Battista della Rovere, called Il Fiamminghino / Italian, 1561-1627/30
Date: 1591/95
Medium: Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, over traces of graphite, on tan laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper with pink and orange watercolor border
Dimensions: 19.7 × 18.8 cm (7 13/16 × 7 7/16 in.)
Type: Drawing
Classification: ink or chalk wash
Place: Italy
Department: Prints and Drawings
Credit line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Accession no.: 1922.585

Provenance

The Art Institute of Chicago’s open-access data does not include an ownership history for this work. See the museum’s page for this work.

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