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Presentation in the Temple
Provenance
Jonathan Richardson, Jr. (1694-1771), London [Lugt 2170]. Benjamin West (1738-1820), London [Lugt 419]. Sold by Nathan Chaikin, Vaud, Switzerland, to the Art Institute, 1972.
Exhibition history
The Art Institute of Chicago, "151 Italian Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," 1979-1980, cat. 93, cat. by Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh; also traveled to Washington D.C., the National Gallery of Art. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 64-65, cat. 23 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi; traveled to The St. Louis Art Museum, March 1-May 16, 1986.
Publications
Nicholas Turner, Roman Baroque Drawings c. 1620 to c. 1700 (London, 1999), p. 175. Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries and Spanish Drawings of the 17th through 19th Centuries (Chicago, 1980), no. 1G2.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Pietro Antonio di Pietri / Italian, 1663-1716
- Date
- c. 1710
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, heightened with white gouache, over black chalk
- Dimensions
- 40.7 × 27.2 cm (16 1/16 × 10 3/4 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Purchased from Nathan Chaikin, Vaud, Switzerland. Worcester Sketch Fund income
- Accession no.
- 1972.323
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Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00002552
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