Saint Peter

ca. 1575

Orazio Samacchini Italian, 1532-1577

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Title Saint Peter

Artwork Date ca. 1575

Artist Orazio Samacchini

Life Dates 1532-1577

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Italian

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Pen and brown ink and brown-gray wash with traces of black chalk on beige antique laid paper

Dimensions Sheet: 9 1/2 × 5 1/8 inches (24.1 × 13 cm)

Classification Drawings

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 09.1SDR312

Markings

Inscriptions Inscribed, in pen and black ink, verso, upper center: André Vannuchi dit | del Sarto Inscribed, in pencil, verso, center right: 19.S Inscribed, in pencil, verso, lower left: HEF Inscribed, annotations transferred from old mat to current mat: del Sarto, Andrea [illegible]; after Zuccara [sic]

Provenance

Antoine Kaller (Koller?). 1887, C J. Meyer (Carlsbad). James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, p. 59, no. 16.

Olszewski, Edward. A Corpus of Drawings in Midwestern Collections. Sixteenth-Century Italian Drawings, vol. 1-2. Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2008, vol. 2, p. 420, cat. 340 (ill.).

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Credit Line for Reproduction

attributed to Orazio Samacchini, Saint Peter, ca. 1575, pen and brown ink and brown-gray wash with traces of black chalk on beige antique laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1SDR312.