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The Virgin and Child with Saint Clare and Saint Francis

A work made of pen and brown and black ink, with brush and brown wash and touches of black chalk, heightened with lead white gouache, on cream laid paper, squared for transfer in black chalk, laid down on white japanese paper.
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  • A work made of pen and brown and black ink, with brush and brown wash and touches of black chalk, heightened with lead white gouache, on cream laid paper, squared for transfer in black chalk, laid down on white japanese paper.

Date:

1580/90

Artist:

Circle of the Carracci
Italian, late 16th century

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

School of the Carracci Family

Title

The Virgin and Child with Saint Clare and Saint Francis

Place

Italy (Artist's nationality:)

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1580–1590

Medium

Pen and brown and black ink, with brush and brown wash and touches of black chalk, heightened with lead white gouache, on cream laid paper, squared for transfer in black chalk, laid down on white Japanese paper

Inscriptions

Inscribed recto, upper left, in pen and brown ink: “81”

Dimensions

19.2 × 17.4 cm (7 9/16 × 6 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Anne Searle Bent

Reference Number

2018.739

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