
AT-00003595
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Saint Helena Kneeling before the True Cross
Exhibition history
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.
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. 147-48, no. 189 (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Cesare Nebbia / Italian, 1536-1614
- Date
- c. 1582
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, over black chalk, on cream laid paper, edge mounted on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 29.7 × 16.4 cm (11 3/4 × 6 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- ink with wash
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 1922.1055
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