Portrait of an Ecclesiastic Wearing a Biretta, probably 1580/1590

Not on View

Medium

red chalk heightened with white

Dimensions

Overall (approximate): 31.6 x 22.4 cm (12 7/16 x 8 13/16 in.)
support: 39.8 x 30.8 cm (15 11/16 x 12 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

1972.49.1

Artists / Makers

Annibale Carracci (artist) Bolognese, 1560 - 1609

Image Use

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Inscription

in unknown hand, lower left: Annibal Carache.; across center verso of mount: 34. Annibale Carracci. Portrait of a priestin a cap: red / chalk ... Sir Thomas Lawrence

Marks and Labels

Ellesmere (L. Supp.2710b)

Provenance

Charles-Gilbert, Viscount Morel de Vinde (according to inscription on back of mount); Samuel Woodburn; Sir Thomas Lawrence (Lugt 2445); Samuel Woodburn; Lord Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere (Lugt 2710b), and by descent (sale, Sotheby's, London, 11 July 1972, no. 75); P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., for NGA, purchase in 1972.

Associated Names

Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., P. & D.
Sotheby's

Exhibition History

1836: The Lawrence Gallery, Sixth Exhibition, Messrs. Woodburn's Gallery, London, 1936, no. 67.

1952: Old Master Drawings, Leicester Museums and Art Gallery, 1952, no. 16.

1954: The Ellesmere Collection of Old Master Drawings, Museums and Art Gallery, Leicester, 1954, no. 84 (P. A. Tomory).

1961: The Carracci, Drawings and Paintings, The Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1961, no. 166 (as Follower of Annibale).

1974: NGA Recent Acquisitions 1974, no. 28.