The Virgin, the Holy Women, and Saints John, James and Joseph of Arimathea, with Christ on the Way to Calvary

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Antonio Carracci
Italian, 1583-1618

Perhaps because his life was so short, Antonio Carracci’s drawings are extremely rare. This rather finished composition reveals the influence of his famous uncle Annibale Carracci’s masterful landscapes.

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Artist: Antonio Carracci
Title: The Virgin, the Holy Women, and Saints John, James and Joseph of Arimathea, with Christ on the Way to Calvary
Place: Italy (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1603–1618
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.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Leigh B. Block
Reference Number: 1977.293
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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

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

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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