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Saint with Book and Cross Seated on a Cloud
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto, lower center, in pen and brown ink: "nella Galleria [illeg.] nella Stanze della Galleria in Vaticano pallaza la loggia S. rafaelle. Ferraù Fe . . ."; lower right, in pen and brown ink: "C.2 . . .0"; inscribed verso, lower center in graphite: "3"; lower center in pen and brown ink: "G. A...."; lower right, in pen and brown ink: "-- + A"
Exhibition history
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago," April 10-July 22, 1997. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Strokes of Genius: Italian Drawings from the Goldman Collection," November 1, 2014-February 1, 2015.
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. 104-06, no. 133 (ill.). Giuseppe Scavizzi and Nicolas Schwed, Ferraù Fenzoni (Todi, 2006), p. 274, no. D50 (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Ferraù Fenzoni / Italian, 1562-1645
- Date
- c. 1591
- Medium
- Pen and black and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, with traces of black chalk, on blue laid paper
- Dimensions
- 32.9 × 23.6 cm (13 × 9 5/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- ink with wash
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 1993.256.23
Provenance
Unknown collector [stamp (Lugt 474), recto, lower right, in black]. John Towneley (1731-1813), Chiswick [Album bookplate]. J. J. Lindman [stamp (Lugt 1479a), recto, lower right, in gray]. William F. E. Gurley (1854-1943), Chicago; bequeathed to the Art Institute for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1943.
More by Ferraù Fenzoni in museum collections
Lamentation over the Dead Christ at the Foot of the Cross (recto); Studies for the Burial of Christ (verso)
Ferraù Fenzoni1620–30 · Drawing
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-00005488
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