Seated Youth Wearing a Monk's Habit: Study for Saint Benedict (1590): Artwork and History

Seated Youth Wearing a Monk's Habit: Study for Saint Benedict (1590) is in the Art Institute of Chicago collection. The museum lists its creator attribution as Bartolomeo Cesi Italian, 1556-1629.

The work and its context

The Art Institute of Chicago describes the work:

This work was modeled on a young studio assistant who appears frequently in Cesi's drawings, but it was preparatory for a painting of a much older Saint Benedict in the church of San Procolo, Bologna. The black chalk grid would have facilitated the artist in the transfer and enlarging of his design.

Object facts

• Title: Seated Youth Wearing a Monk's Habit: Study for Saint Benedict
• Date: 1590
• Artist attribution: Bartolomeo Cesi Italian, 1556-1629
• Place of origin: Italy
• Medium: Red chalk, heightened with touches of white chalk, on blue laid paper, squared in black and red chalk
• Dimensions: 35.2 × 21.4 cm (13 7/8 × 8 7/16 in.)
• Type: Drawing and Watercolor
• Department: Prints and Drawings
• Reference number: 1922.5404

Collection credit

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection

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