Study for the Pentecost

Exhibition history

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

Publications

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.).

Quick Overview

Artist: Simone Peterzano / Italian, 1573-1596
Date: c. 1580
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: 28.7 × 23.9 cm (11 5/16 × 9 7/16 in.)
Type: Drawing
Classification: pen and ink drawings
Place: Italy
Department: Prints and Drawings
Credit line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Accession no.: 1922.5658

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.