Standing Saint in Portico

Prints and Drawings

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Unknown artist
Italian, second half of the 16th century

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Artist: Orazio Samacchini
Title: Standing Saint in Portico
Origin: Italy
Date: 1551–1599
Medium: Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, over traces of black chalk and graphite, on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, lower right, in pen and brown ink: “Samacchini”
Dimensions: 144 × 105 mm
Credit Line: Gift of Anne Searle Bent
Reference Number: 2018.737

Capturing the Sublime: Italian Drawings of the Renaissance and Baroque, edited by Suzanne Folds McCullagh with the assistance of Kate Tierney Powell (New Haven and London: The Art Institute of Chicago and Yale University Press, 2012), pp. 241 (color ill.) and 303, no. A8.

Giuseppe Vallardi (died 1863), Milan [stamp (Lugt 1223), recto, lower left, in blue]. Miles Chappell; exchanged with Anne Searle Bent, Mar. 2003; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018.

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