Saint John the Baptist or Christ the Good Shepherd

Inscriptions

Inscribed recto, lower center, in pen and brown ink: "il guerchin [?] / Fecit"

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. 256, no. 332 (ill.).

Quick Overview

Artist: Guy François / French, 1578-1650
Date: 1570/90
Medium: Charcoal heightened with white gouache, on tan laid paper
Dimensions: 20.9 × 14.1 cm (8 1/4 × 5 9/16 in.)
Type: Drawing
Classification: charcoal
Place: France
Department: Prints and Drawings
Credit line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Accession no.: 1922.1735

Provenance

William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower left, in black]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922.

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