Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00003386Saint Peter Brought before Nero
by Ercole Setti
Inscriptions
Inscription recto, on former secondary mount (GCI): "Massaccio. P&S 1/29/15"
Provenance
William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower right, and verso, lower center on mount]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922 [stamp (Lugt 1230b), verso, lower center on mount, in black].
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. 225-26, no. 2691 (ill.).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Ercole Setti / Italian, 1530-1617
- Date
- n.d.
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink with brush and pale brown wash, with traces of black chalk, on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- 26.2 × 40.5 cm (10 3/8 × 16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- ink with wash
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 1922.49
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