Study of a Kneeling Saint

Prints and Drawings

1570/75

Orazio Samacchini
Italian, 1532–1577

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Orazio Samacchini
Title: Study of a Kneeling Saint
Place: Italy (Object made in)
Date: Made 1570–1575
Medium: Black chalk on cream laid paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed verso, lower right, in red chalk: "40"
Dimensions: 421 × 274 mm
Credit Line: Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
Reference Number: 2022.95
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Art Institute of Chicago, Gray Collection: Seven Centuries of Art, Sept. 25, 2010–Jan. 2, 2011, cat. 16 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection, Jan. 25–Oct. 12, 2020; traveled to Berkeley, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Aug. 4–Nov. 28, 2021.

Sold by C.G. Boerner/Artemis Fine Arts, London, to Richard and Mary L. Gray, Chicago, July 2003 (promised to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019); given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2022.

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