God the Father

Inscriptions

Inscribed verso, lower right, on mount, in graphite: "Pordenone/L 35 — 18"

Provenance

Sold by Max de Beer, de Beer Fine Art, London, to Philip (died 1990) and Myril Pouncey, London, June 8, 1959; sold, Sotheby’s, New York, Jan. 21, 2003, lot 11, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA.; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.

Exhibition history

Cremona, Santa Maria della Pietà and Museo Civico, "I Campi e la cultura artistica cremonese del Cinquecento," cat. by Mina Gregori, 1985, pp. 296–97, cat. 2.10.6 (ill.). 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. 25, cat. 2 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, "The Thrill of the Chase: Drawings for the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," March 15-June 15, 2014, no cat.

Publications

Giulio Bora, “Note cremonesi, I: Camillo Boccaccino, Le proposte,” Paragone 295 (1974), p. 70 n. 79. Mario di Giampaolo, “Aspetti della grafica cremonese per S. Sigismondo. . . ,” Antichità viva 13, 6 (1974), pp. 23, 30–31 n. 52, fig. 32. Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), p. 25, cat. 2 (ill.).

Quick Overview

Artist: Bernardino Campi / Italian, 1522-1591
Date: 1567/70
Medium: Black chalk, heightened with white gouache, squared in black chalk, on gray-brown laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
Dimensions: 21.2 × 36.8 cm (8 3/8 × 14 1/2 in.)
Type: Drawing
Classification: prints and drawing
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.: 2013.908

More by Bernardino Campi in museum collections

Two Standing Prisoners in a Niche
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Public collection via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00002118

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