The Meeting of Joachim and Anna at the Golden Gate
c. 1553
Medium
Pen and brown ink with brush and gray wash, heightened with lead white, on tan laid paper, laid down on ivory laid card
Dimensions
18.8 × 12.1 cm (7 7/16 × 4 13/16 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
85775
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
This drawing was attributed to Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli in 1965 by Konrad Oberhuber (note on verso of mount), who published it as a characteristic early work from the 1530s, when Bedoli's graphic style strongly reflected that of his teacher, Parmigianino. Oberhuber's identification of the scene as the meeting of Anna and Joachim at the Golden Gate has been generally accepted, although Walter Vitzthum suggested that the drawing represented Ulysses' reunion with Penelope. Diane De Grazia proposed...