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The Holy Family at Table Served by an Angel
Also known as: Christ with Virgin Attended by an Angel; The Holy Family at Table with an Angel
Inscriptions
signed, lower left, in gold ink: LOD.C. / F. ; RECTO OF OLD MOUNT (now removed), lower left, in graphite: 39 ; VERSO OF OLD MOUNT (now removed), center, in blue pencil: 30. Lodovico Carracci / Christ with Virgin attended / by an Angel.
Provenance
Count Ulisse Aldrovandi (1772-1826 or 1826), Bologna (according to Sotheby's catalogue). Unidentified (Lugt 2725a, verso, now destroyed). Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830), London (Lugt 2445, lower left, blind stamped). Francis Egerton, Earl of Ellesmere (1800-1857), London (Lugt 2710b, upper right, in black ink). His sale, "The Ellesmere Collection of Drawings by the Carracci and other Bolognese Masters," Part I, Sotheby & Co, July 11, 1972, lot 9 1972: with Heim Gallery, Ltd., London and Paris 1972: Sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
Year in Review: 1972. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 27-March 18, 1973). The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 6-April 22, 1979). Connoisseurship in Italian Figural Compositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 1980-February 15, 1981). Italian Drawings from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 16, 1986-March 1, 1987). Concept, Dogma and Feeling: Italian Drawings 1550-1650. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 20, 1991).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Ludovico Carracci (Italian, 1555–1619)
- Date
- c. 1608–10
- Medium
- pen and gold ink over traces of black chalk(?); framing lines in gold ink
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 9.9 x 9.4 cm (3 7/8 x 3 11/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Dudley P. Allen Fund
- Accession no.
- 1972.100
More by Ludovico Carracci in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00011581
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