Landscape with Two Washerwomen
1580s
Artist, Bolognese, 1557 - 1602
Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 20.5 x 29.3 cm (8 1/16 x 11 9/16 in.)
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Accession
1978.19.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Carlo Bianconi; Samuel Woodburn; Sir Thomas Lawrence; Samuel Woodburn; Francis Egerton, Earl of Ellesmere (L. Supp.2710b), and by descent (sale, Sotheby's, London, 11 July 1972, no. 37); purchased by Edward Speelman; Robert H. and Clarice Smith, Washington; gift to NGA in 1978.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1836
The Lawrence Gallery, Sixth Exhibition, Messrs. Woodburn's Gallery, London, 1836, no. 37.
1954
The Ellesmere Collection of Old Master Drawings, The Museums and Art Gallery, Leicester, 1954, no. 40 (P. A. Tomory).
1955
Drawings by the Carracci and Other Masters from the Ellesmere Collection, P. & D. Colnaghi, London, 1955, no. 33.
1956
Mostra dei Carracci. Disegni. Palazzo dall'Archiginnasio, Bologna, 1956, no. 82.
1961
The Carracci, Drawings and Paintings, The Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1961, no. 43.
1978
Master Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978, p. 49.
1988
Italian Renaissance Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1988, no cat.
Bibliography
1898
Catalogue of the Ellesmere Collection of Drawings at Bridgewater House. London, 1898: no.101.
1995
De Grazia, Diane. "Storia dei disegni emiliani del XVI secolo". in La pittura in Emilia e in Romagna: Il Cinquecento. Milan, 1995, 2: 255.
1998
Whitfield, Clovis. "Francesco Brizio: Prospetti e paesaggi," Accademia Clementina, Atti e memorie, nos. 38-39, Bologna, 1998-1999: 16, fig. 9 (as Francesco Brizio).
Inscriptions
in unknown hand, lower left: Agosto. Caracci; lower right: Caracci; upper right verso: Agostino Car.cci
Wikidata ID
Q64533475