The Nativity with Saints Francis and Agnes

c. 1605

Lodovico Carracci

Artist, Bolognese, 1555 - 1619

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink and brown wash with white heightening over black chalk; traces of incising

  • Credit Line

    Adolph Caspar Miller Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 20.2 x 29.5 cm (7 15/16 x 11 5/8 in.)

  • 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


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