Standing Male Figure

Inscriptions

Inscribed recto, upper center, in pen and brown ink: "135"; lower left, in graphite: "526"; inscribed verso, upper right on mount, in pen and brown ink: "No. 54.112"; lower right on mount in graphite: "... 17 settembre..."

Provenance

Unidentified early-mid nineteenth-century Italian collector [script (Lugt 3005f), verso, lower right on mount, in graphite]. Sold, Puttick & Simpson, London, May 15, 1914, part of lot 85, to 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, lower left, in black].

Exhibition history

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago," April 10-June 22, 1997.

Publications

Joachim Harold and Susanne Folds McCullagh, Italian Drawings of the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries, The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), pp. 129-30, no. 4E2 (as Jacopo Chimenti [da Empoli][?]). 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. 100, no. 126 (ill.).

Quick Overview

Artist: Jacopo Chimenti, called Jacopo da Empoli / Italian, 1551-1640
Date: c. 1600
Medium: Pen and iron gall ink, with brush and brown and gray wash, on ivory laid paper
Dimensions: 29.7 × 19.1 cm (11 3/4 × 7 9/16 in.)
Type: Drawing
Classification: pen and ink drawings
Place: Italy
Department: Prints and Drawings
Credit line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Accession no.: 1922.2251

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