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Ottavio Leoni

Giovanni Baglione

1625
Engraving on ivory laid paper
14.4 × 11.3 cm (5.7 × 4.4 in)

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FROM THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO’S CATALOG

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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