drawing
- Museum number
- T,13.15
- Description
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Holy Family with the infant St John, after Cesare Gennari (?); the Virgin and Child seated at a table with Joseph, the infant Baptist standing in front and reaching up
Red chalk, heightened with white, on buff prepared paper
Turner and Plazzotta 1991
The Madonna is seated in profile to the left with the Christ Child on her lap; he looks down, over his left shoulder, at the Baptist standing in profile to the left beside her and raising his arms in Christ's direction; behind the group, Joseph leans his right elbow on a block and proffers an object towards the outstretched arms of the Christ Child.
- Production date
- 1652-1688
- Dimensions
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Height: 161 millimetres
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Width: 140 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Turner and Plazzotta 1991
This sketch cannot be an autograph drawing by Cesare Gennari on account of its very poor quality. We are not, however, in a position to identify a composition by him from which it might be copied.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1769
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- T,13.15
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: FAWK,5212.15