About the Artwork
Presentation in the Temple
ca. 1575
Orazio Samacchini
1532-1577
Italian
Unknown
Pen and brown ink with brown wash, heightened with white, over black chalk on light tan laid paper, squared for transfer with black chalk
Sheet: 11 1/8 × 7 1/16 inches (28.3 × 17.9 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy
34.152
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, in pencil, on backing sheet, diagonally, near center: Sebastiano di Piombo | (Dominiquani Bologne) Inscribed, in blue pencil, on backing sheet, lower center: 486 [between two lines]
Provenance
Hermann Voss (Berlin, Germany)
1934-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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DeGrazia, Diane. La Stampe Dei Carracci Con I Disegni, Le Incisioni, Le Copie E I Dipinti Connessi. Bologna, 1984, pp. 90-91 (fig 58a).
Exhibition of Old Master Drawings at the H. Schickman Gallery. Exh. cat., H. Schickman Gallery. New York, 1966, no. 28.
Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, p. 58, no. 15, p. 23 (pl. vii).
Prints and Related Drawings by the Carraci Family: A Catalogue Raisonné. Washington D.C., 1979, p. 122 (fig. 31a).
Smith, Grahm. "A Drawing by Orazio Samacchini for his Presentation in the Temple in San Giacomo Maggiore." Master Drawings 13, 4 (1975): pp. 370-372.
Olszewski, Edward. A Corpus of Drawings in Midwestern Collections. Sixteenth-Century Italian Drawings, vol. 1-2. Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2008, vol. 2, p. 419, cat. 339 (ill.).
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Orazio Samacchini, Presentation in the Temple, ca. 1575, pen and brown ink with brown wash, heightened with white, over black chalk on light tan laid paper, squared for transfer with black chalk. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy, 34.152.
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