The Adoration of the Shepherds

Prints and Drawings

1611/12

Ludovico Carracci
Italian, 1555-1619

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Lodovico Carracci
Title: The Adoration of the Shepherds
Place: Bologna (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.: 1611–1612
Medium: Pen and brown ink, with white heightening, on ivory laid paper prepared with rust-brown wash, partially incised for transfer
Inscriptions: Inscribed on former mount: "S.B. 85"
Dimensions: 27.6 × 27.4 cm (10 7/8 × 10 13/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Kate Ganz in honor of Laura M. Giles
Reference Number: 2000.441
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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.)

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.

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