
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00006019Bearded Man with his Right Arm Raised
Provenance
Baron Jan Gijsbert Verstolk van Soelen; sold, Amsterdam, Mar. 22, 1847, lot 147 (as Paolo Veronese), to Roos for Gerard Leembruggen Jzn.; sold, Amsterdam, Mar. 5–10, 1886, lot 896 (as Paolo Veronese) to John Malcolm, 1st Baron of Poltalloch (1805–1893); to his son-in-law, Alfred Erskine Gathorne-Hardy (1845–1918); by descent to Geoffrey Malcolm Gathorne-Hardy (1878–1972); by descent to Robert Gathorne-Hardy (1902–1973); sold, Sotheby's, London, Apr. 28, 1976, lot 11. Private collection, Switzerland; sold, Christie's London, July 9, 2002, lot. 11. C.G. Boerner/Artemis, New York, Richard and Mary L. Gray, Chicago, 2003; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.
Exhibition history
London, Royal Academy of Arts, Drawings by Old Masters, 1953, cat. 123 (as Federico Zuccaro). Edinburgh, Merchants' Hall, Italian 16th-Century Drawings from British Private Collections, 1969, cat. 49 (anon. North Italian artist). London, Colnaghi, Loan Exhibition of Drawings by Old Masters from the Collection of Mr. Geoffrey Gathorne-Hardy, 1971–72, cat. 30 (as Giuseppe Salviati). Art Institute of Chicago, Gray Collection: Seven Centuries of Art, Sept. 25, 2010–Jan. 2, 2011, cat. 4 (ill.). The Art Institute of Chicago, "Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection", January 25 - May 10, 2020, p. 17, fig. 2, p. 131, GC 13, traveled to New York, The Morgan Library, February 19 - June 6, 2021, and Berkeley CA, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, August 4 - November 28, 2021.
Publications
Alfred Erskine Gathorne-Hardy, Descriptive Catalogue of Drawings by the Old Masters in the Possession of the Hon. A.E. Gathorne-Hardy (Ballantyne, 1902), pp. 28–29, no. 51 (as Paolo Veronese). Terence Mullaly, "Italian Sixteenth-Century Drawings in Edinburgh," Burlington Magazine 111 (1969), p. 632, fig. 80 (as Leandro Bassano). Theodore Crombie, "Graphic Masterpieces", Apollo 94 (1971), p. 504, fig. 2 (as Giuseppe Salviati). David McTavish, Giuseppe Porta, called Giuseppe Salviati (Garland, 1981), pp. 356–57, no. 32, fig. 224. Scott Reyburn, "Art Market," Antique Trade Gazette (Aug. 24, 2002), p. 23 (ill.).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Giuseppe Porta / Italian, c. 1520–c. 1575
- Date
- 1562/64
- Medium
- Black, red, and ocher chalk, heightened with touches of white chalk, on bluish gray laid paper
- Dimensions
- 20.6 × 26.3 cm (8 1/8 × 10 3/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- drawings (visual works)
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
- Accession no.
- 2019.860
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