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Saint John the Baptist preaching

Maker

(artist)
1612-1666

Title

Medium

medium : material : ink & support : material : paper

Dimensions

Height: 42.6 cm
Width: 24.5 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.908

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: below the image, black ink: “ALL' ILL.mo e REV.mo S.re MIO SIG.re PRON COL.mo MONSIG.re GIACOMO NINI // Maestro di Camera della Santità di Nostro S.re Alessandro VII. // A V.S. Ill.ma che nella Corte Romana, promove gli studi, e le buone Arti, io dedico il disegno di questa Sacra Imagine // da me dipinta. Se l'arte muta del colore ha' qualche espres.ne di eloquenza, in rappresentare il Precursore di Christo predi //cante, la stessa darà voce al silentio della mia divotione, nel riverire hora humiliss. VS. Ill.ma mio benefattore, alla cui // persona prego insieme felice esaltatione // D. VS. Ill.ma e R.ma Humiliss e Divot.mo Ser.re // Pietro Francesco Mola.”; Mount: lower left corner, graphite: “433/70(35)”; lower right corner, graphite: “G.1990.WL.908 Barloti 81”.

Inscription: inscription : printed : bottom right of margin & recto : : Pietro. Santi. Bartolo sculp.

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