Madonna and Child with Saints John and Luke

Not on View

Medium

pen and black ink with brown wash over red chalk

Dimensions

overall: 36.2 x 31.2 cm (14 1/4 x 12 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Julius S. Held Collection, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

1983.74.8

Artists / Makers

Jean Cousin the Younger (artist) French, c. 1522 - c. 1594

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left verso in graphite: N.M. Deutsch / 1484-1530; lower left verso:Ck; lower center verso: (A.J. Sachs Coll.) (actually: P.J. Sachs Coll.); lower right verso in brown ink: Jean Cousin

Provenance

G.L. Laporte (Lugt 1170), New York; Paul J. Sachs (Lugt 2091), Cambridge, Massachusetts; Julius S. Held (H, J, and S in monogram, in black ink), Old Bennington, Vermont; purchased 1983 by NGA.

Associated Names

Held, Julius S., Professor
Held, Peter Mark, Mr.
Laporte, G.L., Dr.
Sachs, Paul Joseph

Exhibition History

1970: Selections from the Drawing Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Julius S. Held, University Art Gallery, Binghamton; traveling exhibition, 1970, no. 59.

1973: One Hundred Master Drawings from New England Private Collections, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford; Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College; Museum of Fine Art, Boston, 1973-1974, no. 2.

1976: Old Master Drawings from American Collections, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1976, no. 135 (Ebria Feinblatt).

Bibliography

1973: Robinson 1973, no. 2.