Pietà

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. 81, no. 101 (ill.).

Quick Overview

Artist: Giovanni Battista Castello, called Il Bergamasco / Italian, c. 1509-1569
Date: n.d.
Medium: Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, on tan laid paper, squared in graphite, laid down on ivory laid paper
Dimensions: 11.9 × 8.3 cm (4 11/16 × 3 5/16 in.)
Type: Drawing
Classification: ink with wash
Place: Italy
Department: Prints and Drawings
Credit line: Gift of Charles R. Feldstein
Accession no.: 1991.734

Provenance

Capt. Carlo Prayer (1826-1900) Milan [stamp (Lugt 2044), recto, lower right, in red]. Given by Charles R. Feldstein, Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1991.

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