Madonna and Child with a Bishop, 1591

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Medium

chiaroscuro woodcut printed from three blocks: dark brown line block and two tone blocks in shades of brown on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to and within border): 27.9 x 21.3 cm (11 x 8 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of John Nichols Estabrook and Dorothy Coogan Estabrook

Catalogue Raisonné

Bartsch, Vol. 12, p.63, no. 22, State trimmed without the lettering

Accession Number

1988.20.2

Artists / Makers

Andrea Andreani (artist) Italian, 1558/1559 - 1629

Alessandro Casolani (artist after) Sienese, 1552 - 1606

Image Use

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Inscription

by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: 49/00; by later hand, lower right verso in red chalk: 97; by later hand on mount, lower right in red ink: Vergini 22-; by later hand on mount, cC //in graphite: La Sainte Vierge accompaned'un S. Eveque / after Alexandre C asolano by Andr e Andreani / B. XII, 63 No 22 / coll. Cicoynara Vevvi 1852

Bibliography

1802: Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna: J.V. Degen, 1802-1821.