Art, literature & history
Saint Anne Received in Heaven by Christ and the Virgin
c. 1653
- Dating
- Approximate date range
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Etching on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 32.1 × 25.1 cm (12 11/16 × 9 15/16 in.); Plate: 33.5 × 25.5 cm (13 1/4 × 10 1/16 in.); Sheet: 33.8 × 25.8 cm (13 5/16 × 10 3/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1997.652
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Luca Giordano. Saint Anne Received in Heaven by Christ and the Virgin, c. 1653. Inventory 1997.652. Luca Giordano; Art Institute of Chicago. Collection credit: Purchased with funds provided by Anne Searle Bent. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). https://www.artic.edu/artworks/148397. Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
Saint Anne Received in Heaven by Christ and the Virgin — Luca Giordano. c. 1653.
Medium: Etching on ivory laid paper. Dimensions: Image: 32.1 × 25.1 cm (12 11/16 × 9 15/16 in.); Plate: 33.5 × 25.5 cm (13 1/4 × 10 1/16 in.); Sheet: 33.8 × 25.8 cm (13 5/16 × 10 3/16 in.).
Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
A Neapolitan painter known as Luca fa presto (“Luke who paints quickly"), Luca Giordano was also a fluent and expeditious draftsman. Probably trained by Ribera, he only made six etchings. Despite the rapid pace at which he worked, he produced very small editions of these prints, making early works such as this one extremely rare.
Description: © Art Institute of Chicago, original record, CC BY 4.0. HTML formatting removed; wording retained. Other artwork metadata: CC0.
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.