Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00005739Father Pepe Preaching to Sailors
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto, upper right, in pen and brown ink: "37"; below image, in pen and brown ink: "Il P. Pepe in Roma predicando à Marinari di Ripa"; verso, lower center, in graphite: "709N"
Provenance
Charles III, King of Spain (died 1788); Charles IV, King of Spain (died 1819); Joseph Bonaparte, King of Spain (died 1844); Ferdinand VII, King of Spain (died 1833); the 1st Duke of Wellington (died 1852), by 1813; by descent until 1972. Robert M. Light, Boston; Dorothy Braude Edinburg; given to the Art Institute, 1998.
Exhibition history
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Gifts of a Lifetime, Old Master Drawings," 1998-99, checklist 21. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 60, cat. 33 (ill.).
Publications
Disegni originali rappresentanti alcuni ritratti in caricatura fatti dal Cavaliere Pier Leone Ghezzi pittore romano I (Rome, 1780), p. 37 (ill.).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Pier Leone Ghezzi / Italian, 1674-1755
- Date
- c. 1740
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, over traces of black chalk, on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper and edge-mounted on pale blue-green laid paper
- Dimensions
- 48 × 38 cm (18 15/16 × 15 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 1998.110
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