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Saint Charles Borromeo Entering the Town of Pavia: Design for a Wall Decoration
Provenance
Alcide Donnadieu (c. 1791–1861), London [stamp (Lugt 97) verso]. Thomas Dimsdale (1758–1823), London [stamp (Lugt 2426), verso]. Possibly Benjamin West (1738–1820), London [possibly his stamp (B.W.) recto, lower left, in black; not in Lugt]. Alfred Normand (born 1910), Paris; sold, Christie’s, Monte Carlo, June 20, 1994, lot 17. Sold by C. G. Boerner Inc./Artemis Fine Arts, New York and London, to John A. Bross, Feb. 2002; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2014.
Publications
C. G. Boerner Inc./Artemis Fine Arts, Old Master Drawings: Neue Lagerliste 116 (New York and London, 2002), cat. 6 (ill.) Rhoda Eitel-Porter, Der Zeichner und Maler Cesare Nebbia 1536–1614 (Munich, 2009), pp. 151, 181, 317, pl. 198.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Cesare Nebbia / Italian, 1536–1614
- Date
- c. 1604
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, over traces of graphite, on cream laid paper, laid down on buff card
- Dimensions
- Primary support: 15.3 × 31 cm (6 1/16 × 12 1/4 in.); Secondary support: 15.7 × 31.3 cm (6 3/16 × 12 3/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of John A. Bross in memory of Louise Smith Bross
- Accession no.
- 2014.1144
More by Cesare Nebbia 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-00006144
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