The Virgin and Child Appearing to Saints George and William

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk on laid paper

Dimensions

Overall: 27.7 x 20.9 cm (10 7/8 x 8 1/4 in.)
support: 34.6 x 28 cm (13 5/8 x 11 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

1972.49.3

Artists / Makers

Lodovico Carracci (artist) Bolognese, 1555 - 1619

Image Use

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Inscription

in later hand, lower center: Lod.co Caracci; across center verso on mount: 49. Lodovico Carracci. The Madonna & Child / enthroned in clouds ... Sir Thomas / Lawrence

Provenance

Count Bianconi (according to an inscription on the back of the mount); Samuel Woodburn; Sir Thomas Lawrence (Lugt 2445); Samuel Woodburn; Lord Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere and by descent (sale, Sotheby's, London, 11 July 1972, no. 20); to P. & D. Colnaghi, Ltd., London, for NGA, purchase in 1972.

Associated Names

Bianconi, Carlo
Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., P. & D.
Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere, Francis
Lawrence, Thomas, Sir
Sotheby's
Woodburn, Samuel

Exhibition History

1836: The Lawrence Gallery, Sixth Exhibition, Messrs. Woodburn's Gallery, London, 1836, no. 7.

1954: The Ellesmere Collection of Old Master Drawings, Museums and Art Gallery, Leicester, 1954, no. 23 (P. A. Tomory).

1955: A Loan Exhibition of Drawings by the Carracci and Other Masters from the Collection of the Earl of Ellesmere, P. & D. Colnaghi, London, 1955, no. 3.

Bibliography

1898: Catalogue of the Ellesmere Collection of Drawings at Bridgewater House. London, 1898: no. 49.

1939: Bodmer, Heinrich. Lodovico Carracci. Burg bei Magdeburg, 1939: 150, no. 51.