San Carlo Borromeo Adoring an Image of the Birth of the Virgin
1684/87
Medium
Brush and brown ink and wash, with black chalk, heightened with lead white (partly discolored), on brown laid paper, laid down on card
Dimensions
42.2 × 30 cm (16 5/8 × 11 13/16 in.)
Classification
ink or chalk wash
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
84967
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Sigismondo Caula · 1637–1724
Sigismondo Caula was born on 24 May 1637 in Modena to Sebastiano and Maddalena. He studied under the French painter Jean Boulanger, becoming one of his pupils alongside Tommaso Costa and others; he even witnessed Boulanger’s will in 1660. After this formative period he traveled to Venice, where he completed his education by studying the great sixteenth-century masters, especially Titian, Tintorett...