drawing
- Museum number
- 1991,1005.81
- Description
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The Holy Family at a table served by an angel; St Joseph at l, the young Christ at centre looking to the Virgin at r, the angel with vessels on a tray behind
Pen and brown ink
- Production date
- 1570-1619
- Dimensions
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Height: 129 millimetres
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Width: 115 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- A related composition drawn with pen and ink on vellum is in the Cleveland Museum of Art (72.100; Bohn no. 238). As Bohn suggests both drawings were probably made as finished devotional works in their own right.
Lit.: C. Robertson and C. Whistler, in exhib. cat., Oxford, Ashmolean Museum and London, Hazlitt, Gooden and Fox, 'Drawings by the Carracci from British collections', 1996, no. 7; B. Bohn, 'Ludovico Carracci and the art of drawing', Turnhout, 2004, no. 239 (with further literature)
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1992/3 Nov-May, Holkam Tour 1995-6 Nov-Apr, BM, Recent Acquisitions (no cat.)
1996/7 Dec-Mar, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, 'Carracci', no. 7
2003/4 Dec-April, BM, NACF exhibition
- Acquisition date
- 1991
- Acquisition notes
- The drawing passed by descent from the 1st Earl of Leicester to Viscount Coke. 40% from the National Heritage Memorial Fund, 10% from the NACF.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1991,1005.81
