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Circumcision of the Christ Child (recto); Marriage of the Virgin (verso)

A work made of black chalk with pen and brown ink, heightened with lead white (partially discolored) (recto), and black chalk (verso), on cream laid paper, recto squared in black chalk.
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  • A work made of black chalk with pen and brown ink, heightened with lead white (partially discolored) (recto), and black chalk (verso), on cream laid paper, recto squared in black chalk.

Date:

c. 1577

Artist:

Workshop of Paolo Caliari, called Veronese
Italian, 1528-1588

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Follower of Paolo Veronese

Title

Circumcision of the Christ Child (recto); Marriage of the Virgin (verso)

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.

1575–1579

Medium

Black chalk with pen and brown ink, heightened with lead white (partially discolored) (recto), and black chalk (verso), on cream laid paper, recto squared in black chalk

Inscriptions

Inscribed verso, lower left, in graphite: "A. Veronese"; lower center, in pen and black ink (in Gurley hand): "Alessandro Turchi--1582-1650 / ("Alessandro Veronese" "L'Orbetto")"

Dimensions

26.4 × 33.4 cm (10 7/16 × 13 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection

Reference Number

1922.5508

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