Head of Saint John the Evangelist: Study for the Disputation on the Immaculate Conception

Inscriptions

Inscribed recto, lower left, in pen and brown ink: "Sogliano"

Provenance

Sold, Sotheby's, London, July 4, 1994, lot 52 (as attributed to Camillo Boccaccino) (ill.), to Kate Ganz Ltd., London and New York; sold to the Art Institute, 1996.

Exhibition history

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago," April 10-July 22, 1997. The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Broad Spectrum: Color on Paper, Past and Present," September 12–October 31, 1999, hors. cat. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Strokes of Genius: Italian Drawings from the Goldman Collection," November 1, 2014-February 1, 2015.

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), pp. 226-27, no. 292 (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 Antonio Sogliani / Italian, 1492-1544
Date: 1531/36
Medium: Black and red chalks heightened with white chalk on ivory laid paper
Dimensions: 25.7 × 18.3 cm (10 1/8 × 7 1/4 in.)
Type: Drawing
Classification: chalk
Place: Italy
Department: Prints and Drawings
Credit line: Margaret Day Blake, Suzanne Searle Dixon and Harold Joachim endowments
Accession no.: 1996.2

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