Study for the Pentecost

Prints and Drawings

c. 1580

Simone Peterzano
Italian, 1573-1596

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Artist: Simone Peterzano
Title: Study for the Pentecost
Origin: Italy
Date: 1578–1582
Medium: Pen brown ink and brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white (with later additions to left knee and face of Virgin), over traces of black chalk, on ivory laid paper, laid down on tan laid paper
Dimensions: 287 × 239 mm
Credit Line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1922.5658

Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura M. Giles, Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1997), pp. 189-90, no. 247 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago,” Apr. 12-June 22, 1997.

McCullagh & Giles 247

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