Saint Charles Borromeo Venerating the Relics
c. 1604
Medium
Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, over graphite, on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Sight: 11.3 × 17.1 cm (4 1/2 × 6 3/4 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
223806
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Louise Smith Bross, who died in 1996 at the age of 57, was a longtime member of the Woman’s Board of the Art Institute and one of the founders of both the Auxiliary Board and the Old Masters Society. In 1994 she received her doctorate from the University of Chicago with a dissertation, “The Church of Santo Spirito in Sassia: A Study in the Development of Art, Architecture, and Patronage in Counter-Reformation Rome.” The eight drawings that her husband, John Bross, proposes now to give in her mem...
About the Artist
Cesare Nebbia · 1536–1614
Italian painter. Comment on works: Religious; Portraits