The Madonna Protecting Two Members of a Confraternity, 1582

Not on View

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 29.6 x 22.1 cm (11 5/8 x 8 11/16 in.)

sheet: 30.7 x 23 cm (12 1/16 x 9 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Bohlin 1979, no. 106, State iii/iii

Accession Number

2002.14.1

Artists / Makers

Agostino Carracci (artist) Bolognese, 1557 - 1602

Veronese (artist after) Venetian, 1528 - 1588

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate below image: Color che uniti in charita perfetta / Menan quà giù vivendo. i giorni èl'hore, / Fratelli in Christo, dalla sua dilatta. lower center in plate below image: Madre, raccolti son con santo amore; / Ella gli custodisce ella gli accetta / Come suoi figli, et mette in somo honore; lower right in plate below image: Ella del mondo à lor dona vittoria, / E in Ciel gli tira à là beata gloria; Horatio / Bertelli for.

Provenance

(Jan Johnson, Montreal); purchased 2001 by NGA.

Associated Names

Johnson, Jan

Bibliography

1979: Bohlin, Diane DeGrazia. Prints and Related Drawings by the Carracci Family. Exh. cat. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1979.