Ottavio Mario Leoni
Italian, 1578-1630
Marcellus Provenzalis
INV-1090
Ottavio Mario Leoni
Italian, 1578-16301623
Marcellus Provenzalis
Ottavio Mario Leoni Italian, 1578-1630 →etchingprint
Date
1623
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.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
The Wallace L. DeWolf and Joseph Brooks Fair Collections
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.
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