Seated Prophet or Evangelist Writing

by Giuseppe Porta, called Giuseppe Salviati

Exhibition history

Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago," Apr. 12-June 22, 1997.

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. 221-22, no. 2686 (ill.).

Quick Overview

Artist: Giuseppe Porta, called Giuseppe Salviati / Italian, c. 1520-1575
Date: n.d.
Medium: Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, with traces of black chalk, heightened with white gouache, on blue laid paper, laid down on cream laid card
Dimensions: 14.1 × 12.3 cm (5 9/16 × 4 7/8 in.)
Type: Drawing
Classification: ink with wash
Place: Italy
Department: Prints and Drawings
Credit line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Accession no.: 1922.920

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.

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