drawing
- Museum number
- SL,5236.85
- Description
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Christ and the woman taken in adultery; group of figures, one kneeling on the ground at centre, classical architecture behind
Pen and brown ink
- Production date
- 1550-1580 (fl.circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 112 millimetres
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Width: 90 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The attibution to Agresti is based on the resemblance in handling, facial types, drapery etc. with documented drawings such as FF.1-31 (Gere and Pouncey no. 2)
Lit.: J.A. Gere and P. Pouncey, 'Italian drawings in the BM, Artists working in Rome', London, 1983, no. 1; G. Viroli, Pittura del Cinquecento a Forlì, II, Bologna, 1993, no. 74
Gere & Pouncey 1983
The attribution to Agresti, put forward in 1972, is based on the resemblance in handling, facial types, drapery, etc. to the documented drawing of the 'Last Supper' (Ff,1.31).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Acquisition notes
- As "Carracci ?" in Sloane Inventory of 1845, but later kept with Anonymous Italian unmounted
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- SL,5236.85
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: A,21.85
