drawing
- Museum number
- 1917,1208.2
- Description
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The Marriage of the Virgin; the Virgin and St Joseph with the High Priest at centre, figures in the foreground including a man kneeling with a book, arched
Pen and brown ink, with brown wash, heightened with white, on light brown prepared paper
- Production date
- 1598-1601
- Dimensions
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Height: 320 millimetres
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Width: 175 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- This drawing is possibly related to Salmeggia's altarpiece, `The Marriage of the Virgin` (commissioned in 1598 and paid for in 1601), above the altar dedicated to St Joseph in the Duomo, Milan, a link shared by another, more sketchy drawing by Salmeggia in the BM, 1949,0709.7. Eric Pagliano firmly connects the two BM drawings and a black and white chalk study in Grenoble (MG D 1004; Pagliano 2010, no. 20) to the altarpiece, along with a black chalk study in the Ambrosiana, Milan (Pagliano fig. 20.4).
Lit.: U. Ruggeri, 'Salmeggia, Pittore 1', "Critica d'Arte", 1966, XII, pp. 46-7, fig. 7; E. Pagliano (ed.), exhib. cat., Musée de Grenoble, 'De chair et d`esprit. Dessins italiens du musée de Grenoble', Paris, 2010, under no. 20, pp.69-72 (fig. 20.3)
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1978, BM, Gainsborough and Reynolds in the BM, no 254
- Acquisition date
- 1917
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1917,1208.2
