print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1855,0609.1221
- Title
- Series: Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus célèbres tableaux de la Galerie Royale de Dresde
- Description
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Madonna and Child, with Saints Francis, Anthony of Padua, Catherine of Siena and John the Baptist; the Virgin, centre, in front of a landscape background, holding the naked Child on her lap, sits on an elaborate high throne, partly supported by putti; the Baptist, left, resting a long thin cross on his shoulder, pointing towards the Virgin; St Francis, right, kneeling; two angels hovering above her; head of putti appearing among the clouds behind her. 1752
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1752
- Dimensions
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Height: 522 millimetres (platemark)
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Height: 745 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 415 millimetres (platemark)
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Width: 542 millimetres (sheet)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Print after Correggio's Madonna of St Francis, formerly in the Church of S. Francesco in Correggio, sold to Augustus III of Saxony in 1745, now in the Gemäldegalerie in Dresden. See Gould, 1976, p. 201-203
According to Mussini, this is the third and last state. The plate was engraved in Paris for the volume "Recueil d'estampes...de la G. R. de Dresde" ( see 1855,0609.1251 for comment), in which it was plate number 1. See Mussini, Correggio Tradotto, 1995, p. 93
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1855
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1855,0609.1221
