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Half-Length Sketch of a Gentleman Wearing Hat and Cape
Inscriptions
Inscribed verso, upper center on mount, in graphite: "titian -- 1477-1576"; lower left, in graphite: "Lot 39"; lower right, in graphite: "Titian"
Provenance
Dr. C. D. Ginsburg [stamp (Lugt 1145) verso, lower left on mount, in black]; sold, Sotheby's, London, July 20, 1915, part of lot 39, to Maggs Bros., London. William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower right, in black]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922 [stamp (Lugt 1230b), verso, center on mount, in black].
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), p. 181, no. 235 (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Bartolomeo Passarotti / Italian, 1529-1592
- Date
- n.d.
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink on tan laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- 17.3 × 14.2 cm (6 13/16 × 5 5/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 1922.1027
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Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00003586
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