The Nativity with Saints Francis and Agnes
c. 1605
Artist, Bolognese, 1555 - 1619
Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink and brown wash with white heightening over black chalk; traces of incising
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 20.2 x 29.5 cm (7 15/16 x 11 5/8 in.)
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Accession
1975.52.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
William Young Ottley; Samuel Woodburn, London; Sir Thomas Lawrence (Lugt 2445); Samuel Woodburn, London; Lord Francis Egerton, first Earl of Ellesmere (Lugt Supp.2710b) and by descent (sale, Sotheby's, London, 11 July 1972, no. 13); Yvonne Tan Bunzl, London; NGA purchase in 1975.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1836
The Lawrence Gallery, Sixth Exhibition, Messrs. Woodburn's Gallery, London, 1836, no. 20.
1954
The Ellesmere Collection of Old Master Drawings, Museums and Art Gallery, Leicester, 1954, no. 17 (P. A. Tomory).
1955
Drawings by the Carracci and Other Masters, P. & D. Colnaghi, London, 1955, no. 5.
1978
Master Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978, p. 48.
1984
Correggio and His Legacy, Sixteenth-Century Emilian Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1984, no. 120 (Diane De Grazia).
Correggio e il suo lascito, disegni del cinquecento emiliano, Palazzo della Pilotta, Parma, 1984, no. 120 (Italian version of the Washington exhibition).
2018
Heavenly Earth: Images of Saint Francis at La Verna, NGA, 2018.
Bibliography
1972
Coulanges, Henri. "Les Carrache, trois pionniers d'un retour au réalisme," in Connaissance des Arts, no. 244 (June 1972): 107, fig. 6.
1982
Bohn, Babette. "The Drawings of Ludovico Carracci." Ph.D. dissertation, Columbia University, New York, 1982: 292, no. 167.
Inscriptions
in later hand, lower left in brown ink: Lodovico Caraci
Wikidata ID
Q64593284