Christ Washing the Disciples’ Feet

Inscriptions

Inscribed recto, on mount, lower right, in graphite: FA 910405 / 13”; verso, upper right, in graphite: “127 / 910405 / 13”; lower left, in graphite: “6149 /Gio di San Giovanni / 15[?] g…05 / 13”; center, in graphite: “Echange Turin .85 / Ecole di Bologne / Jules Cesare Procaccini / 1548-1627 / 127”

Provenance

Unknown collector [stamp (Lugt 79), recto, lower left, in bluish black ink]. Sold, Étude Daussy-Ricqlès, Paris, Apr. 5, 1991, lot 20. Sold by David Jones Fine Art, London, to Anne Searle Bent, 2006; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018.

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. 245 (color ill.) and 305, no. A14.

Quick Overview

Artist: Giovanni Balducci / Italian, c. 1560–after 1631
Date: 1582/84
Medium: Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, over black chalk, on cream laid paper
Dimensions: 36.8 × 25.7 cm (14 1/2 × 10 1/8 in.)
Type: Drawing
Place: Italy
Department: Prints and Drawings
Credit line: Gift of Anne Searle Bent
Accession no.: 2018.726

More by Giovanni Balducci in museum collections

Battle Scene
Giovanni Balducci
c. 1589 · Drawing
Public collection via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00003562

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