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    The Virgin, the Holy Women, and Saints John, James and Joseph of Arimathea, with Christ on the Way to Calvary by Antonio Carracci
    Antonio Carracci. The Virgin, the Holy Women, and Saints John, James and Joseph of Arimathea, with Christ on the Way to Calvary, n.d.. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
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    The Virgin, the Holy Women, and Saints John, James and Joseph of Arimathea, with Christ on the Way to Calvary

    by Antonio Carracci

    Exhibition history

    London, Lawrence Gallery, "One Hundred Original Drawings by Lodovico, Agostino, & Annibale Carracci, Collected by Sir Thomas Lawrence," 1836, cat. 71, as by Annibale Carracci. London, P.&D. Colnaghi & Co., "A loan exhibition of drawings by the Carracci and other masters: from the collection of the Earl of Ellesmere," (London, 1955). Bologna, Palazzo dell'Archiginnasio, "Mostra dei Carracci," 1956, cat. 251. Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, "Italian Drawings in The Art Institute of Chicago," 1979-1980, cat. 58, cat. by Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh; also traveled to Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art. Leicester, The Museums and Art Gallery, "The Ellesmere Collection of Old Master Drawings," 1954, cat. no. 104

    Publications

    Catalogue of the Ellesmere Collection of Drawings at Bridgewater House (London, 1898), no. 112, as Annibale Carracci. Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings of the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries (Chicago, 1979), no. 4B4. Carel Van Tuyll Van Serooskerken, "Two Preparatory Drawings by Antonio Carracci," Master Drawings, 31:4 (Winter 1993) p. 431 Michael Jaffé, The Devonshire Collection of Italian Drawings, Bolognese and Emilian Schools (London, 1994), p.104 Emilio Negro and Massimo Pirondini, La Scuola dei Carracci I Seguaci di Annibale e Agostino (Modena, 1995), p.148 Shelley Perlove and George S. Keyes (editors). Seventeenth-Century European Drawings in Midwestern Collections (University of Notre Dame Press, 2014), pp. 20

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Antonio Carracci / Italian, 1583-1618
    Date
    n.d.
    Medium
    Pen and brown ink, with brush and blue wash, heightened with lead white (discolored), on blue laid paper
    Dimensions
    32.3 × 25.4 cm (12 3/4 × 10 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    pen and ink drawings
    Place
    Italy
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Leigh B. Block
    Accession no.
    1977.293

    Provenance

    Narcisse Revil (died 1844), Paris [London 1972]. Sir Thomas Lawrence (died 1830), London [London 1972]; sold by Samuel Woodburn on behalf of Thomas Lawrence's estate to Lord Francis Egerton (died 1857), 1st Earl of Ellesmere, London, 1837 [Lugt Suppl. 2710b; London 1955]; sold, Sotheby's, London, July 11, 1972, The Ellesmere Collection, lot 181, to P. Hardy [annotated sales catalogue]. Sold by the Paul Drey Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute, 1977.

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