Saint Helena Kneeling before the True Cross

Prints and Drawings

c. 1582

Cesare Nebbia
Italian, 1536-1614

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Cesare Nebbia
Title: Saint Helena Kneeling before the True Cross
Origin: Italy
Date: 1580–1585
Medium: Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, over black chalk, on cream laid paper, edge mounted on cream wove paper
Dimensions: 297 × 164 mm
Credit Line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1922.1055
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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. 147-48, no. 189 (ill.).

The Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, “Religious Narrative in Sixteenth Century Rome,” September 11-October 23, 1983.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago,” April 10-July 22, 1997.

McCullagh & Giles 189

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