drawing
- Museum number
- 1950,0211.10
- Description
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The Holy Family with a female saint offering the Infant Christ an apple (?), the Virgin supporting him on the edge of the crib
Pen and brown ink and brown wash, heightened with white (partly oxidised), over black chalk, squared and indented for transfer, on blue paper
- Production date
- 1535-1570
- Dimensions
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Height: 186 millimetres
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Width: 276 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- A copy of this is in the E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento which the Tietzes, unaware of the present work, believed to be autograph (Inv. It. 1, no. 18; H. Tietze and E. Tietze-Conrat, 'The Drawings of the Venetian Painters in the 15th and 16th Centuries', New York, 1944, no. 1392, pl. XCVIII, 4). No related painting by Salviati is known.
Lit.: D. McTavish, 'Giuseppe Porta called Salviati', New York and London, 1981, no. 12, p. 331, fig. 196
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1950
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1950,0211.10
