Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00004030David with Goliath's Head and Sword
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto, lower edge, in pen and brown ink: "A Ms Giuseppe Casabona semplicista di S.A. à Firenze, GBP 1587"
Provenance
W. Bates [stamp (Lugt 2604), recto, lower right, in red]. J. J. Lindman [stamp (Lugt 1479a), recto, lower right, in purple]. 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 [stamp (Lugt 1230b), verso, lower center, 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
Mary Newcome, "Drasings by Paggi, 1577-1600," Antichità Viva (1991), pp. 14-23, no. 27. 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. 151, no. 194 (ill.).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Giovanni Battista Paggi / Italian, 1554-1627
- Date
- 1587
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white and traces of graphite, on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- 25.9 × 17.5 cm (10 1/4 × 6 15/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- ink with wash
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 1922.1920
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