Suffer the Little Children to Come unto Me

Inscriptions

Inscribed recto, lower left, in pen and black ink: 131

Exhibition history

Oberlin, Allen Memorial Museum, From Studio to Studiolo: Florentine Draftsmanship under the First Medici Grand Dukes, 1991, cat. 23, as Jacopo Ligozzi. Art Institute of Chicago, Strokes of Genius: Italian Drawings from the Goldman Collection, Nov. 1, 2014–Feb. 1, 2015, pp. 96–97, 178, cat. 26 (color ill.).

Publications

John A. Gere, “The Lawrence-Phillipps-Rosenbach ‘Zuccaro Album’,” Master Drawings (1970), 2, pp. 139–40, no. 48, pl. 27 (as Anonymous). Mario Di Giampaolo, Disegni emiliani del Rinascimento, (Modena, 1989), p. 288, under no. 142. Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura M. Giles, Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1997), p. 387, under no. 666. De Moustier, La collection de dessins de l’Ecole italienne du Marquis de Lagoy (1764–1829), Mémoire de recherche, Ecole du Louvre (Paris, 2013), II:183–84, no. 517.

Quick Overview

Artist: Giambattista Tinti / Italian, 1558–1604
Date: n.d.
Medium: Brush and brown washes and pen and brown ink, heightened with lead-white gouache (partially discolored), on cream laid paper
Dimensions: Sight: 33.4 × 41 cm (13 3/16 × 16 3/16 in.)
Type: Drawing
Classification: brush and wash
Place: Italy
Department: Prints and Drawings
Credit line: Gift of Jean and Steven Goldman
Accession no.: 2018.801

Provenance

Bartolomeo Cavaceppi (1716–1799), Rome, to Willem Anne Lestevenon (1750–c. 1830), Paris, 1788/91; to Jean-Baptiste-Florentin-Gabriel de Meryan, Marquis de Lagoy (1764–1829), Aix-en-Provence, 1805 [(Lugt 1710), as no. 111 of Lagoy’s manuscript inventory drawn in 1809–10 (“Ecole romaine ep. 3. Federico Zuccaro […] des collections Cavaceppi, Levenston”)]; to Samuel Woodburn (1786–1853), London; to Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830), London [Lugt 2445]; to Samuel Woodburn; sold, Christies, London, June 4, 1860, as part of lot 1074 (as Zucchero (F. and T.)—a most interesting series of 20 drawings representing Incidents in the Life of Taddeo Zuchero […], followed by 53 specimens of their works […]). Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792¬–1872); by descent to his grandson, Thomas Fitzroy Fenwick (1856–1938); to Dr. A.S.W Rosenbach (1876–1952), Philadelphia, 1930; to the Philip H. and A.S. W. Rosenbach Foundation, Philadelphia, 1950; to the British Rail Pension Fund, 1978; sold, Sotheby’s, New York, Jan. 11, 1990, lot 51 (as Jacopo Ligozzi). Thomas Williams Fine Art, London, 1991. Sold by W. M. Brady & Co., New York, Jean and Steven Goldman, 2013; 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.