Ottavio Mario Leoni
Italian, 1578-1630
Giovanni Baglione
INV-1090
Ottavio Mario Leoni
Italian, 1578-16301625
Giovanni Baglione
Ottavio Mario Leoni Italian, 1578-1630 →etchingprint
Date
1625
Medium
Engraving on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 14.4 × 11.3 cm (5 11/16 × 4 1/2 in.); Sheet: 17.3 × 13.9 cm (6 13/16 × 5 1/2 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
The Wallace L. DeWolf and Joseph Brooks Fair Collections
Ottavio Leoni was renowned for his portraits, which he drew from life in colored chalk and later engraved. His advanced command of engraving and his use of stippling are evident in this print of the artist Giovanni Baglione, who decades earlier had implicated Leoni in a libel suit waged against Caravaggio. Baglione’s painting The Ecstasy of Saint Francis of Assisi of 1601 is also in the Art Institute collection (2002.378).
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