The Virgin and Child Appearing to Saints George and William

Lodovico Carracci

Artist, Bolognese, 1555 - 1619

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

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

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • 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.)

  • Accession

    1972.49.3


Artwork history & notes

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

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.

Inscriptions

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

Wikidata ID

Q64593283


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