Marcellus Provenzalis

Description

The Roman painter and engraver Ottavio Leoni transformed his famous group of highly finished chalk portraits into hundreds of prints. These amount to a compendium of important artists in early-17th-century Rome. Like Giovanni Baglione (1920.2303), Leoni’s portrait of Marcellus Provenzalis is a keen characterization of an artist. This engraving is among Leoni’s early prints and betrays his immature, slightly awkward cross-hatching.

Marcellus Provenzalis

Ottavio Leoni

1623

Accession Number

109034

Medium

Engraving on ivory laid paper

Dimensions

Plate: 14.4 × 11.2 cm (5 11/16 × 4 7/16 in.); Sheet: 16.8 × 13.7 cm (6 5/8 × 5 7/16 in.)

Classification

etching

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

The Wallace L. DeWolf and Joseph Brooks Fair Collections