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Study for the Purification of the Virgin
Inscriptions
Inscribed, recto, upper center, along central column, in red chalk: "C•15..C•b 1-14"; lower left, on former mount: "Batista / Naldini / Pasigniano"
Exhibition history
The Art Institute of Chicago, August 4, 1994-January 31, 1995. Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago," Apr. 12-June 22, 1997. The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Medici, Michelangelo, and the Art of Late Renaissance Florence," November 9, 2002-February 2, 2003. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Capturing the Sublime: Italian Drawings of the Renaissance and Baroque," March 26-July 8, 2012, pl 42, pp. 92-93, cat. by Suzanne Folds McCullagh, et. al.
Publications
Annamaria Petrioli Tofani and Graham Smith, Sixteenth-Century Tuscan Drawings from the Uffizi, exh. cat. (Detroit Institute of Arts, 1988), under cat. 57. Suzanne Folds McCullagh, “Recent Acquisitions of Florentine Drawings in the Art Institute of Chicago,” L’Arte del Disegno 3 (January 1997), pp. 63–65, fig. 3 (ill). 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. 186-87, no. 188 (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Giovanni Battista Naldini / Italian, 1537-1591
- Date
- c. 1577
- Medium
- Red and black chalk with stumping, and incising, over pen and brown ink, on ivory laid paper, squared in black chalk
- Dimensions
- 40.9 × 27.2 cm (16 1/8 × 10 3/4 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- chalk
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Anne Searle Bent
- Accession no.
- 1993.193
Provenance
The Art Institute of Chicago’s open-access data does not include an ownership history for this work. See the museum’s page for this work.
More by Giovanni Battista Naldini in museum collections
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-00005479
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