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Holy Family

Maker

(artist)
1555-1619

Title

Holy Family

Date of Production

(circa) 1607 - 1610

Medium

black chalk, pen and brown ink and brown wash on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 25.1 cm
Width: 20 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1969

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords






Provenance

Sir Peter Lely, London (1618-1680); E. Parsons & Sons (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Italian Drawings of the 17th and 18th Centuries from the Witt
Collection
, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/03/1971-01/04/1971

Italian Old Master drawings. Witt Collection, Courtauld Gallery, The National Art Gallery of New Zealand, Wellington, 1970

Master Drawings of the 17th century from the Witt Collection, Art Gallery of South Australia, Festival Exhibitions, Adelaide, 1968 ...More

The Carracci - Drawings and Paintings, Newcastle & England, 1961

Old Master Drawings from the Witt Collection, Auckland City Art Gallery, 01/09/1960-01/10/1960

Drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1958-59

Mostra dei Carracci, Bologna & Italy, 1956

Drawings by Old Masters, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1953 ...Less

Literature

Bohn, Babette, Ludovico Carracci and the art of drawing, Turnhout, Harvey Miller Publishers, 2004
no. 228
ill. on p. 377

Bohn, Babette, The drawings of Ludovico Carracci, Ph.D. Thesis, Columbia University, 1982
no. 145

Italian Old Master drawings. Witt Collection, Courtauld Gallery, The National Art Gallery of New Zealand, Wellington, 1970
cat. no. 23
ill. on p. 17 ...More

The Carracci: drawings and paintings, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1961
no. 23
pl. IX

Old Master Drawings from the Witt Collection, Auckland City Art Gallery, 1960
cat. no. 27

Drawings from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1958 - 1959
cat. no. 33

Mostra dei Carracci: disegni, Palazzo dell'Archiginnasio, Bologna, 1956
no. 40

Drawings by Old Masters, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1953
cat. no. 150

Wittkower, Rudolf, The drawings of the Carracci in the collection of Her Majesty the Queen at Windsor Castle, London, 1952
under no. 80

Bodmer, Heinrich, Lodovico Carracci, Burg, 1939
no. 62 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Collector's mark: collector's mark of Sir Peter Lely (L.2092)

Inscription: An: Carracci

Inscription: 254 x 193 / RW 1969 Holy Family ? / (24.7 x 19.8) //

Inscription: 27.32

Inscription: D'Luodovico Carrazcii 27.

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