The Holy Family

Simone Cantarini

Artist, Pesarese, 1612 - 1648

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    red chalk on light tan laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Joseph F. McCrindle Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 10.8 x 17.6 cm (4 1/4 x 6 15/16 in.)
    mount: 19.2 x 26.5 cm (7 9/16 x 10 7/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2009.70.90


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

John Barnard [d. 1784], London (Lugt 1419). (P & D Colnaghi & Co. Ltd., London, by 1965); Joseph McCrindle [1923-2008], New York, 1965: Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation, 2008; gift to NGA, 2009.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1965

  • Exhibition of Old Master Drawings, P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd., London, 1965, no. 47

Bibliography

2012

  • Grasselli, Margaret M., and Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., eds. The McCrindle Gift: A Distinguished Collection of Drawings and Watercolors. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art. Washington, 2012: 179 (color).

Inscriptions

by later hand, upper left verso in graphite: 47 (in circle); by later hand, center left verso in graphite: [Not deciphered]; by John Barnard, upper right verso in pen and brown ink: [J]: B N:[5?] (cut off) / 8 by 5 / This drawing was etched by Zocchi; by later hand, lower right in graphite: D28364 / [Not deciphered] (erased)
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Wikidata ID

Q64631697


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