Study for Bacchus or Silenus

Inscriptions

Inscribed verso, lower right, in graphite: “No. 218”

Peter Silvermann, Paris. Galerie de Bayser, Paris; sold to Didier Aaron, Paris, May 2012; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.

Artist: Domenico Maria Canuti / Italian, 1625-1684
Date: c. 1664
Medium: Black chalk on tan laid paper
Dimensions: 28.2 × 41.2 cm (11 1/8 × 16 1/4 in.)
Type: Drawing
Classification: drawings (visual works)
Place: Italy
Department: Prints and Drawings
Credit line: Suzanne Lord Folds and Mary S. Adams endowment funds; Anne Searle Bent Fund; Sara R. Shorey Endowment Fund
Accession no.: 2019.923

Head of a Dominican Nun: Study for the Ecstasy of Saint Dominic
Domenico Maria Canuti
1673/75 · Drawing
Public collection via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00003515
Virgin and Child Appearing to Saint Cajetan of Thiene
Domenico Maria Canuti
1681/82 · Drawing
Public collection via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00005558
Study for the Allegorical Figure of Earthly Harmony
Domenico Maria Canuti
c. 1677 · Drawing
Public collection via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00006029
The Apotheosis of Romulus: Design for a Ceiling
Domenico Maria Canuti
c. 1675–76 · Drawing
Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of ArtAT-00011647

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