Attack on the life of St Carlo Borromeo, ca. 1640

Blatt: 292 x 197 mm

Physical Description: Red chalks, framed at right and bottom edges with a hand-drawn line in brown, trimmed at left with traces of a framing line in black chalk, at upper edge also traces of black chalk, over them a framing line in a second shade of brown ink

Inventory Number: 561

Object Number: 561 Z

Status: On display, Department of Prints and Drawings Exhibition Gallery

Texts

About the Work

The attack comes unexpectedly. It is 26 October 1569. As Cardinal Carlo Borromeo of Milan is praying, his assassin approaches—it is the man with a rifle and hat at the right. The cardinal will remain unharmed. The sheet was originally thought to be a work by the well-known Bolognese master Guido Reni, as the inscription beneath the altar shows. It has meanwhile been ascribed to his pupil Simone Cantarini, one of Bologna’s especially productive draughtsmen.

Work Data

Basic Information

Title: Attack on the life of St Carlo Borromeo

Draughtsman

Simone Cantarini attributed

Period Produced

17th century

School

Baroque

Object Type

drawing

Physical Description: Red chalks, framed at right and bottom edges with a hand-drawn line in brown, trimmed at left with traces of a framing line in black chalk, at upper edge also traces of black chalk, over them a framing line in a second shade of brown ink

Material

paper

Technique

red chalk drawing

Geographic Reference

Bolognese

Production Reason

composition study

Captions Added Later: Bezeichnet unten links (mit der Feder in Braun): Guido Reni.; verso unten links Stempel des Städelschen Kunstinstituts, Frankfurt am Main (Lugt 2356); bezeichnet unten links (mit der Feder in Braun): N 99; darüber (mit Grafit): /hr; mittig: Guido Reni fecit