The Virgin and Child in the Clouds with Six Saints, 1742

Not on View

Medium

chiaroscuro woodcut printed from two blocks in buff and black on laid paper

Dimensions

image: 59 x 37.5 cm (23 1/4 x 14 3/4 in.), trimmed to block mark

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

Kainen 1962, no. 26

Accession Number

2012.92.534

Artists / Makers

John Baptist Jackson (artist) British, 1701 - 1780

Titian (artist after) Venetian, 1488/1490 - 1576

Image Use

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Inscription

Across top of image: Illmo atq; Excell.mo D.no D.no PHILIPPO FARSETTI Nob. Ven. / Tabellam hanc a Titiano Vicellio jam depictam in / gratissimi animi, cultusq; perpetui testimonium / Mecaenati, ac Sospiti munificentissimo / humiliat, et consecrat J. B. Jackson; in image: TITIANUS FACIEBAT; across bottom of image: J. B. Jackson Del: sculp: &c. 1742

Provenance

Mary Jordan Collection. [1] (Frederick Mulder, London); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased October 20, 1986; Gift to NGA, 2012.

[1] According to the donor's collection list for Jackson woodcuts, a great number came from the Mary Jordan Collection.

Associated Names

Jordan, Mary
Kainen, Jacob, Mrs.
Mulder, Frederick, Mr.

Bibliography

1962: Kainen, Jacob. John Baptist Jackson; 18th century master of the color woodcut. Washington, 1962.: no. 26