Art, literature & history
Study for Saint Benedict Receiving Gifts from the Peasants
c. 1604
- Dating
- Approximate date range
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Black chalk, heightened with traces of white chalk, on tan laid paper with blue fibers, laid down on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- 19.8 × 19.7 cm (7 13/16 × 7 13/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1922.501
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Guido Reni. Study for Saint Benedict Receiving Gifts from the Peasants, c. 1604. Inventory 1922.501. Guido Reni; Art Institute of Chicago. Collection credit: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). https://www.artic.edu/artworks/81666. Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
Study for Saint Benedict Receiving Gifts from the Peasants — Guido Reni. c. 1604.
Medium: Black chalk, heightened with traces of white chalk, on tan laid paper with blue fibers, laid down on ivory laid paper. Dimensions: 19.8 × 19.7 cm (7 13/16 × 7 13/16 in.).
Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.