Inscription
in unknown hand, lower left: Agosto. Caracci; lower right: Caracci; upper right verso: Agostino Car.cci
Provenance
Carlo Bianconi; Samuel Woodburn; Sir Thomas Lawrence; Samuel Woodburn; Francis Egerton, Earl of Ellesmere (L. Supp.2710b), and by descent (sale, Sotheby's, London, 11 July 1972, no. 37); purchased by Edward Speelman; Robert H. and Clarice Smith, Washington; gift to NGA in 1978.
Exhibition History
- 1836
- The Lawrence Gallery, Sixth Exhibition, Messrs. Woodburn's Gallery, London, 1836, no. 37.
- 1954
- The Ellesmere Collection of Old Master Drawings, The Museums and Art Gallery, Leicester, 1954, no. 40 (P. A. Tomory).
- 1955
- Drawings by the Carracci and Other Masters from the Ellesmere Collection, P. & D. Colnaghi, London, 1955, no. 33.
- 1956
- Mostra dei Carracci. Disegni. Palazzo dall'Archiginnasio, Bologna, 1956, no. 82.
- 1961
- The Carracci, Drawings and Paintings, The Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1961, no. 43.
- 1978
- Master Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978, p. 49.
- 1988
- Italian Renaissance Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1988, no cat.
Bibliography
- 1898
- Catalogue of the Ellesmere Collection of Drawings at Bridgewater House. London, 1898: no.101.
- 1995
- De Grazia, Diane. "Storia dei disegni emiliani del XVI secolo". in La pittura in Emilia e in Romagna: Il Cinquecento. Milan, 1995, 2: 255.
- 1998
- Whitfield, Clovis. "Francesco Brizio: Prospetti e paesaggi," Accademia Clementina, Atti e memorie, nos. 38-39, Bologna, 1998-1999: 16, fig. 9 (as Francesco Brizio).
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