Suffer the Little Children

Prints and Drawings

1690/1700

Domenico Piola I
Italian, 1627–1703

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Domenico Piola
Title: Suffer the Little Children
Place: Italy (Artist's nationality)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1690–1700
Medium: Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper, laid down on gray board
Inscriptions: Inscribed verso, upper left, in graphite: “# 1712 / xen”; center, in graphite: “120”; lower right, in graphite: “840617 / 32 / 120”
Dimensions: 22.4 × 29.2 cm (8 7/8 × 11 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Anne Searle Bent
Reference Number: 2018.734
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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.

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

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.

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