Madonna and Child with Angels, Saint Benedict, and Saint Scholastica, 1629

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Medium

pen and brown ink with brown wash, squared in graphite, on laid paper, laid down on old mount

Dimensions

sheet: 35.1 × 23.6 cm (13 13/16 × 9 5/16 in.)
mount: 40.9 × 30.2 cm (16 1/8 × 11 7/8 in.)

framed: 62.23 × 46.99 cm (24 1/2 × 18 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Eugene L. and Marie-Louise Garbáty Fund

Accession Number

2018.165.1

Artists / Makers

Giulio Benso (artist) Genoese, 1592 - 1668

Image Use

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Inscription

by later hand, lower left in brown ink: No. 271; by later hand, upper right verso in graphite: Il Pomerancio; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: ou Richardson(?) / Comte C. G. Tessin(?) / (Lugt 3985) / ex collection: F...[crossed out] / No. 270 / by later hand, lower right in blue ball point ink: L23.8 cm. 8

Provenance

Hubert Marignane [1921 - 2002], Paris and Menton (Lugt 5120). (sale, Christie's New York, 25 January 2005, no. 67); private collection, Milan; (Stanza del Borgo, Milan); purchased 2018 by NGA.

Associated Names

Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.
Marignane, Hubert de
Stanza del Borgo

Exhibition History

2020: A Superb Baroque: Art in Genoa, 1600-1750, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, 2020, no. 56 (shown only in Washington, Washington venue canceled).

Bibliography

2019: Bober, Jonathan. "Genoese Baroque Drawings." National Gallery of Art Bulletin, No. 60(Spring, 2019): 28.

2020: Bober, Jonathan. A Superb Baroque: Art in Genoa, 1600-1750,Exh cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington: 206, no. 56.