The Naming of the Virgin Mary
c. 1690
Artist, Italian, 1648 - 1729
Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink with gray wash over black chalk
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 47 × 28.5 cm (18 1/2 × 11 1/4 in.)
mount: 57.2 × 40.2 cm (22 1/2 × 15 13/16 in.) -
Accession
2018.160.1
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Catalogue Raisonné
Miller 2001, no. undesc.
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
A late 18th-century English collection, with mount and inscriptions. (P. & D. Colnaghi, London, with number D27714). Raine, Countess Spencer [1929 - 2016], London; (her sale, Christie's, London, 17 July 2017, no. 43); ( Nicolas Schwed, Paris); purchased by NGA, 2018.
Associated Names
Bibliography
2001
Miller, Dwight C. Marcantonio Franceschini. Turin, 2001: undesc.
Inscriptions
By the artist, in the disc held by angels, Maria; by a later hand at lower left in pen and black ink, Marc'Antonio Franceschini. On the mount, in an 18th-century hand, Marc Anthonio Franceschin; and P No. 46; and, He was pupil of a scholar of Carlo Cignani ,/ This drawing much of his manner / a true & compleat Drawing and /..Specimen of the master / a Scholar of Carlo Cignani / a true Drawing of a master / very fine.