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Study of a Kneeling Saint
Inscriptions
Inscribed verso, lower right, in red chalk: "40"
Provenance
Sold by C.G. Boerner/Artemis Fine Arts, London, to Richard and Mary L. Gray, Chicago, July 2003 (promised to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019); given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2022.
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, Gray Collection: Seven Centuries of Art, Sept. 25, 2010–Jan. 2, 2011, cat. 16 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection, Jan. 25–Oct. 12, 2020; traveled to Berkeley, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Aug. 4–Nov. 28, 2021.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Orazio Samacchini / Italian, 1532–1577
- Date
- 1570/75
- Medium
- Black chalk on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 42.1 × 27.4 cm (16 5/8 × 10 13/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- drawings (visual works)
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
- Accession no.
- 2022.95
More by Orazio Samacchini 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-00006024
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