The Meeting of Joachim and Anna at the Golden Gate

Exhibition history

The National Gallery of Art, "The Legacy of Correggio: Sixteenth-Century Emilian Drawings," June 3-July 15, 1984. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago," April 10-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), p. 30, no. 29 (ill.).

Quick Overview

Artist: Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli / Italian, c. 1510-c. 1569
Date: c. 1553
Medium: Pen and brown ink with brush and gray wash, heightened with lead white, on tan laid paper, laid down on ivory laid card
Dimensions: 18.8 × 12.1 cm (7 7/16 × 4 13/16 in.)
Type: Drawing
Classification: pen and ink drawings
Place: Italy
Department: Prints and Drawings
Credit line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Accession no.: 1922.2987

Provenance

J. Richardson, Sr. [stamp (Lugt 2183) recto, lower right, in black]. A. M. Champernowne [script (Lugt 153) recto, lower right, in pen and black ink]. William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp recto, lower center, in black]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922 [stamp verso, c. on mount, in black].

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