AT-00005985
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Birth of the Virgin
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Giuseppe Cades / Italian, 1750-1799
- Date
- c. 1784
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink with pen and brown wash, over traces of graphite, heightened with white gouache (discolored), on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- 42 × 56 cm (16 9/16 × 22 1/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Bequest of Inge Maser
- Accession no.
- 2008.236
More by Giuseppe Cades in museum collections
The Meeting of Gautier, Count of Antwerp, and his Daughter, Violante
Giuseppe Cadesc. 1787 · Painting
The Dead Christ Mourned by Saint Mary Magdalen (recto); The Holy Family with an Attendant (verso)
Giuseppe Cades1778–87 · 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-00005985
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