San Carlo Borromeo Giving Last Communion to Victims of the Plague, c. 1724

Not on View

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 36.7 x 22 cm (14 7/16 x 8 11/16 in.)

sheet: 38 x 23.9 cm (14 15/16 x 9 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce and Mary Hopkins Gibb Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

De Vesme 1906, no. 3, State ii/ii

Accession Number

2005.84.1

Artists / Makers

Carlo Innocenzo Carlone (artist) Italian, 1686 - 1775

Image Use

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Inscription

upper left in plate: S. Carolus; upper right in plate: Sss. B. Boromaeus; lower left in plate? C. Carlone inv: et fecit; lower center in plate: Academiae Caesareo Francisceae Negotium et Iohann Dan: Herz excutid, Aug: Vind: / Cum Gratia et Priv. S. Caes Majest; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: (not deciphered); by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: S. Carlo Borommeo

Provenance

(Trinity Fine Art Ltd., London); purchased 2005 by NGA.

Associated Names

Stanza del Borgo
Trinity Fine Art Ltd.

Bibliography

1906: Vesme, Alexandre de (Baudi di Vesme, Alessandro). Le peintre-graveur italien; ouvrage faisant suite au peintre-graveur de Bartsch. Milan: Ulrico Hoepli, 1906.