Landscape with Two Washerwomen, 1580s

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 20.5 x 29.3 cm (8 1/16 x 11 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

1978.19.1

Artists / Makers

Agostino Carracci (artist) Bolognese, 1557 - 1602

Image Use

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Inscription

in unknown hand, lower left: Agosto. Caracci; lower right: Caracci; upper right verso: Agostino Car.cci

Provenance

Carlo Bianconi; Samuel Woodburn; Sir Thomas Lawrence; Samuel Woodburn; Francis Egerton, Earl of Ellesmere (L. Supp.2710b), and by descent (sale, Sotheby's, London, 11 July 1972, no. 37); purchased by Edward Speelman; Robert H. and Clarice Smith, Washington; gift to NGA in 1978.

Associated Names

Bianconi, Carlo
Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere, Francis
Lawrence, Thomas, Sir
Smith, Robert H.
Speelman, Ltd., Edward
Woodburn, Samuel

Exhibition History

1836: The Lawrence Gallery, Sixth Exhibition, Messrs. Woodburn's Gallery, London, 1836, no. 37.

1954: The Ellesmere Collection of Old Master Drawings, The Museums and Art Gallery, Leicester, 1954, no. 40 (P. A. Tomory).

1955: Drawings by the Carracci and Other Masters from the Ellesmere Collection, P. & D. Colnaghi, London, 1955, no. 33.

1956: Mostra dei Carracci. Disegni. Palazzo dall'Archiginnasio, Bologna, 1956, no. 82.

1961: The Carracci, Drawings and Paintings, The Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1961, no. 43.

1978: NGA Master Drawings 1978, p. 49.

Bibliography

1898: Catalogue of the Ellesmere Collection of Drawings at Bridgewater House. London, 1898: no.101.

1995: De Grazia, Diane. "Storia dei disegni emiliani del XVI secolo". in La pittura in Emilia e in Romagna: Il Cinquecento. Milan, 1995, 2: 255.

1998: Whitfield, Clovis. "Francesco Brizio: Prospetti e paesaggi," Accademia Clementina, Atti e memorie, nos. 38-39, Bologna, 1998-1999: 16, fig. 9 (as Francesco Brizio).