Suffer the Little Children to Come unto Me

Provenance

Bartolomeo Cavaceppi (1716–1799), Rome, to Willem Anne Lestevenon (1750–c. 1830), Paris, 1788/91; to Jean-Baptiste-Florentin-Gabriel de Meryan, Marquis de Lagoy (1764–1829), Aix-en-Provence, 1805 [(Lugt 1710), as no. 111 of Lagoy’s manuscript inventory drawn in 1809–10 (“Ecole romaine ep. 3. Federico Zuccaro […] des collections Cavaceppi, Levenston”)]; to Samuel Woodburn (1786–1853), London; to Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830), London [Lugt 2445]; to Samuel Woodburn; sold, Christies, London, June 4, 1860, as part of lot 1074 (as Zucchero (F. and T.)—a most interesting series of 20 drawings representing Incidents in the Life of Taddeo Zuchero […], followed by 53 specimens of their works […]). Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792¬–1872); by descent to his grandson, Thomas Fitzroy Fenwick (1856–1938); to Dr. A.S.W Rosenbach (1876–1952), Philadelphia, 1930; to the Philip H. and A.S. W. Rosenbach Foundation, Philadelphia, 1950; to the British Rail Pension Fund, 1978; sold, Sotheby’s, New York, Jan. 11, 1990, lot 51 (as Jacopo Ligozzi). Thomas Williams Fine Art, London, 1991. Sold by W. M. Brady & Co., New York, Jean and Steven Goldman, 2013; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018.

Suffer the Little Children to Come unto Me

Giovanni Battista Tinti

n.d.

Accession Number

222191

Medium

Brush and brown washes and pen and brown ink, heightened with lead-white gouache (partially discolored), on cream laid paper

Dimensions

Sight: 33.4 × 41 cm (13 3/16 × 16 3/16 in.)

Classification

brush and wash

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Jean and Steven Goldman