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Object Type
Museum number: 1946,0713.799
Description: The Virgin and Child adored by an archiepiscopal saint (St Ambroise?) and St Carlo Borromeo, both kneeling Red and black chalk, heightened with white
Producer name
School/style
Production date: 1575-1635
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 324 millimetres; Width: 211 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Lit.: A.E. Popham, 'Catalogue of Drawings in the Collection formed by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart., F.R.S., now in the possession of his Grandson, T. Fitzroy Phillipps Fenwick of Thirlestaine House, Cheltenham', London, 1935, p. 162, no. 1; J.A. Gere and P. Pouncey, 'Italian drawings in the BM, Artists working in Rome', London, 1983, no. 260 Gere & Pouncey 1983 There is little or no basis for assessing the reliability of the old attribution to Cesare Rossetti, but the style of the drawing fits with what can be inferred about the artist, that he was a follower of Arpino without any very definite personality of his own. We therefore leave it under his name. Literature: Popham, Fenwick, p. 162, no. 1
Bibliographic references: Phillipps-Fenwick 1935 / Catalogue of drawings in the collection of T Fitzroy Phillipps-Fenwick (p.162(1)); Gere & Pouncey 1983 / Artists Working in Rome c.1550-c.1640 (260)
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated names: Representation of: St Ambrose (?); Representation of: St Charles Borromeo, Archbishop of Milan; Representation of: Virgin Mary; Representation of: Jesus Christ
Acquisition name
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: Saint-Morys (by descent to his son Comte Carrière); Previous owner/ex-collection: Carrière (L.474); Previous owner/ex-collection: William Young Ottley (his mount; T. Philipe, 16.vi.1814/1155 as Rossetti 'One -a saint subject - in chalks, stumped and heightened - fine'); Previous owner/ex-collection: Sir Thomas Lawrence (L.2445); Previous owner/ex-collection: Samuel Woodburn (Christie's, 8.vi.1860/part of lot 882 'The return of the prodigal, by FORNARINO,; and various specimens, by Italian masters', 10 in the lot, bt Phillipps £2-6-0); Previous owner/ex-collection: Sir Thomas Phillipps; Previous owner/ex-collection: Thomas Fitzroy Fenwick
Acquisition date: 1946
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1946,0713.799

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