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The Adoration of the Shepherds
Inscriptions
Inscribed on former mount: "S.B. 85"
Provenance
Doge Nicolò Sagredo, Venice; his brother, Stefano Sagredo, Venice; his son, Zaccaria Sagredo, Venice; his nephew, Gherardo Sagredo; his wife, Cecilia Sagredo. Sold, c. 1743. Sold, Christie's, London, July 6, 1993, lot 42. Sold, Christie's, London, April 3, 1995, lot 27. Given by Kate Ganz, New York, to the Art Institute, 2000.
Publications
Kate Ganz, A Catalogue of Drawings, Small Paintings & Oil Sketches (New York, 1996), p. 35, no. 14 (ill.). Shelley Perlove and George S. Keyes (editors). Seventeenth-Century European Drawings in Midwestern Collections (University of Notre Dame Press, 2014), pp. 20, fig. 2 ((ill.)
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Ludovico Carracci / Italian, 1555-1619
- Date
- 1611/12
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, with white heightening, on ivory laid paper prepared with rust-brown wash, partially incised for transfer
- Dimensions
- 27.6 × 27.4 cm (10 7/8 × 10 13/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- Bologna
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Kate Ganz in honor of Laura M. Giles
- Accession no.
- 2000.441
More by Ludovico Carracci in museum collections
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