Suffer the Little Children

Inscriptions

Inscribed verso, upper left, in graphite: “# 1712 / xen”; center, in graphite: “120”; lower right, in graphite: “840617 / 32 / 120”

Exhibition history

Paris, David Jones, Old Master Drawings/Dessins Anciens, June 6–25, 1988, cat. 23.

Publications

Capturing the Sublime: Italian Drawings of the Renaissance and Baroque, edited by Suzanne Folds McCullagh with the assistance of Kate Tierney Powell (New Haven and London: The Art Institute of Chicago and Yale University Press, 2012), pp. 256 (color ill.) and 307, no. A29.

Quick Overview

Artist: Domenico Piola I / Italian, 1627–1703
Date: 1690/1700
Medium: Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper, laid down on gray board
Dimensions: 22.4 × 29.2 cm (8 7/8 × 11 1/2 in.)
Type: Drawing
Place: Italy
Department: Prints and Drawings
Credit line: Gift of Anne Searle Bent
Accession no.: 2018.734

Provenance

Sold, Osenat, Fountainbleau, June 17, 1984, lot 135. Sold by David Jones, Paris, to Anne Searle Bent, 1988; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018.

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